Browser support

Summary: Information about the browser support for RGraph. Browser support is excellent - desktops and mobile devices all support the canvas and SVG tags. There's also a link below to PhantomJS which allows you to create views of webpages without using a browser.

• HTML5 canvas & Microsoft Internet Explorer (MSIE)
• Other devices
• Creating your charts without a browser

Since the charts are made using HTML5 features (the new SVG and canvas tags), browser support includes:

• Mozilla Firefox 3.0+
• Google Chrome 1+
• Apple Safari 3+
• Opera 9.5+
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 9+ (see note)
• Edge
• iPhone (text support from iOS v4+)
• iPad (text support from iOS v4.2+)

The HTML5 canvas and SVG tags are part of the HTML5 standard, and all of the above browsers have some sort of support for them.

HTML5 canvas, HTML5 SVG & Microsoft Internet Explorer (MSIE)

Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 added support for the <canvas> and <SVG> tags at the start of 2011. Older versions of MSIE are no longer supported by RGraph.

Other devices

Other devices (eg mobile devices) may support or may be intending to support the canvas and/or the SVG tags as part of their HTML5 support.

Typically the newer a device or its OS is the higher the chances are that it has support for the HTML5 canvas and SVG tags.

Creating your charts without a browser

If you wish to make charts without a browser or user involved - eg from a script - there's something called PhantomJS that you can use to make images from webpages automatically.

There's a HOWTO document here that goes through the process of using PhantomJS. This document, despite being in the canvas section of the website, applies also to SVG based charts.

You can also find a little bit of information about PhantomJS on the download page .