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Oblomov @[email protected] · 2025-08-09 · 15:16 UTC

Progress update on my #XSLT #SVG #sparkline generator

https://wok.oblomov.eu/tecnologia/plotting-sparklines-xslt/

Another step in my path to revitalize usage of XSLT on the web. And before you ask, no, this is not to spite the #WHATWG and their #XML-aversive #JavaScript brainrot, it's something I've wanted to do for years, as documented by my previous posts on the subject.

However, since the corporate-controlled WHATWG is using metrics as excuse to boycott the #openWeb and #indieWeb, it becomes doubly important to do this now.

#xslt #svg #sparkline #whatwg #xml #javascript

Oblomov @[email protected] · 2025-08-08 · 12:14 UTC

I'm currently working on the #XSLT that generates the #sparkline #SVG from raw #XML data to make it more flexible. This will make the code grow larger (especially singe I'm forced to use the 25-years old #XSLT1 because that's what browsers support, despite two major releases that would make everything easier and more compact), but I will be able to recycle the code to replace the pseudo-sparklines of index pages with _actual_ #sparklines.

#xslt #sparkline #svg #xml #xslt1 #sparklines

Oblomov @[email protected] · 2025-08-08 · 12:09 UTC

I have now actually started working on #sparkline support via #XSLT. The same page as before

https://wok.oblomov.eu/tecnologia/plotting-xslt/

now features a small preview of what this feature can do, and I can't express how happy I am to actually *see* that sparkline right there, my first *real* sparkline, not the pseudo-plots assembled form Unicode block characters still featuring at the top of my index pages.

It's an ugly sparkline (I'm no Tufte after all) but it makes me so happy.

#sparkline #xslt

Space Hobo @[email protected] · 2025-06-14 · 14:23 UTC

This is your unsolicited reminder that to qualify as a #SparkLine, your chart must be designed to be legible in a paragraph of text without affecting line spacing. Tufte specifically coined the term to refer to data visualisations that fit into the area reserved for words in a sentence.

#sparkline

Florian Geierstanger @[email protected] · 2023-06-06 · 11:04 UTC

@michelle @stefan Thanks! I wonder what a #a11y alternative would look like for a #sparkline ? Maybe add a <table> with the underlying data below the graph?

#a11y #sparkline