[tor-dev] Scaling Tor Metrics, Round 2

[Spencer]

Hi,

> 
> Karsten Loesing:
> We briefly discussed making a JavaScript-free Globe a while ago by
> using Node.js.  I'm not sure whether this would also work for Metrics.
>  It may depend on how interactive graphs are supposed to be.
> 

As said later in this thread, .png seems okay.  Though I see the load on 
the server if tons of peeps get at the site; I respect the client-side 
preference.

Thanks :)

> 
> I think the main option is to keep rendering graphs on the server.
> Right now, we're using R/ggplot2 for that, but we could switch to
> server-side JavaScript or really anything else.  The main downside is
> lack of real interactivity.
> 

I see the need for interaction :)  David McCandless [0] has some cool 
stuff that isn't very interactive (but uses JS).

Can the data be processed offline by each person? Tor Rendering Engine 
:P

Wordlife,
Spencer

[0]: http://www.davidmccandless.com