Highcharts is a JavaScript charting library that offers an easy way of adding interactive charts to your web sites/applications. This library, written in pure JavaScript, currently supports line, spline, bar, pie, column, area, areaspline and and scatter chart types. Any of these can be combined in one chart. Since it is solely based on native browser technologies, Highcharts doesn’t require client side plugins like Flash or Java. No server side programming languages (PHP, ASP NET etc.) are required to use this charting library that needs only 3 files to run: the highcharts.js core, a canvas emulator for IE, either the jQuery or the MooTools framework.

Features include:

• Numerous chart types
• Simple configuration syntax
• Tooltip labels
• Datetime axis
• Zooming
• External data loading
• Inverted chart or reversed axis
• Text rotation for labels

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