I wrote this a couple of years ago and it's been very nice to see the amount of attention it's received; I probably receive an email a day about it on average.
Just wish I had a bit more time to add one or two of the most requested features, though I'm deliberately not adding too much - There are much better tools for generating full sized charts in Javascript.
Many have said so, and I don't know if you'll check this thread, but many many thanks for this library. I've only ever used it on internal tools (and the ones worth sharing belong to my now-former employer), but it was really a joy to work with. I keep looking for places where I can use it in the future.
The mouse speed demo has been pretty popular - I think the best actual example of that technique in action that I've seen using jQuery Sparklines can be seen at the Firefox download stats page:
I really like the idea of using the mouse demo for a pretty useless display of say, current processing levels, which'll make every geek's eyes roll and get the guys in marketing salivating ;)
A bit unrelated to this but any ideas how we can improve the reports? Specifically thinking of providing little line chart sparklines for traffic next to each variation.
I've often wanted the pattern of upvotes/downvotes of a comment to be visible in sparkline form (much like the 'SF Giants' win/loss example on the top right of this page).
Why? I think a +2 comment that is 100 upvotes and 99 downvotes is more interesting than one with a single upvote. It's also interesting to see the comment-voting that changes direction once conversation progresses, or when a different audience shows up (for example, at night). (These could be indicated by extra ticks when followup comments are posted, or background shading to indicate time-of-day.)
It'd be too much to include these in the main threaded view, but as an extra detail (like the 'flag' button) on individual-comment pages, with soft enough colors, it could be interesting.
I'm really wondering why all these graphing libraries seem to be preferring canvas over SVG. Nothing wrong with canvas but doesn't SVG integrate much better with the DOM and aren't graphs a really good example of a vector graphic?
I will definitely be using this. The most crucial part is in place, namely the ability to use sparklines within a line of text. Now I will be able to seamlessly blend context and data everywhere I go.
I didn't know this existed, tortuously bodged together my own terrible version of this, and then had that moment of mixed joy and derision upon discovering that someone had done it ridiculously better than me.
Guess that's open source for ya. Its awesomeness quickly dispelled any disappointment at scrapping my own version!
Just wish I had a bit more time to add one or two of the most requested features, though I'm deliberately not adding too much - There are much better tools for generating full sized charts in Javascript.