your histograms here:
http://redirx.com/?g1u
Work in NS 4.08, Opera 7.0 and IE 5.000192893 (laugh at that IE version number) Anyway...your histogram is a real good way to display that information visually. I tend to spend too much time making ascii things like this,
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If you make a proc in OpenACS, it's got to work and look good on all browsers -- or else it totally sucks. I found that using the nested color BG tables made the output more visually exciting or meaningful to the client. I think I had to use that dot_clear image to force the output to work in all browsers -- so it's a total hack. However, maybe the image alt tag could make the information accessable to blind people. It's still a hack though.
What about a histogram that went vertical? -- for some reason that seams harder in HTML but maybe it's possible. Does anyone do stuff like this? (I've dug these two examples out of my outgoing email and now I've put them on that status bar page -- please send examples of HTML and I'll look at it.)
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