Highcharts vs KoolChart: What are the differences?
Highcharts: A charting library written in pure JavaScript, offering an easy way of adding interactive charts to your web site or web application. Highcharts currently supports line, spline, area, areaspline, column, bar, pie, scatter, angular gauges, arearange, areasplinerange, columnrange, bubble, box plot, error bars, funnel, waterfall and polar chart types; KoolChart: HTML5 Canvas based JavaScript charting library. It is an HTML5 CANVAS-based charting solution with excellent performance. It works on all HTML5-supported browsers. With a single development effort, the chart layout and style can be used on multiple devices.
Highcharts and KoolChart can be categorized as "Charting Libraries" tools.
Some of the features offered by Highcharts are:
- It works in all modern mobile and desktop browsers including the iPhone/iPad and Internet Explorer from version 6
- Free for non-commercial
- One of the key features of Highcharts is that under any of the licenses, free or not, you are allowed to download the source code and make your own edits
On the other hand, KoolChart provides the following key features:
- Separate Layout and Dataset, which enhances productivity and quality
- Use the out-of-the-box drill-down functionality without depth limitation
- Handle events using JavaScript
Highcharts is an open source tool with 8.94K GitHub stars and 2.34K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Highcharts's open source repository on GitHub.