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Big fan of Vega as well. I whipped up this graph[1] in about two weeks without knowing any Vega beforehand.

[1] https://cryptomarketdepth.com/#graph

> Being in JSON is also a restrictive though, because it is less interpretable by unstructured bots, where charts.css probably excels by design.

What do you mean by this?

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I think I just stopped my train of thought and hit reply.

I meant to point out that Charts.css relies on having <table> elements in the HTML. Vega relies purely on JSON. This may or may not be of concern. For instance, if you care about bots crawling the website for semantic information, then perhaps the Charts.css way of operating on top of <table>s is preferred. A minor point though.

oh wow, i really should look into vega now.. i too know little about web technologies and benig handed task to create beautiful graphs in very short period of time... :sigh

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