Introduction to Utilizing HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to Create Rich Debugging Information - Game Development Tool Essentials - page 108

jQuery
jQuery 11 is a popular library that helps simplify AJAX queries and HTML document manipulation. jQuery is
particularly useful if you need to support multiple browsers for your logs and reduces the amount of boilerplate code
that needs to be written.
Flotr2
Flotr2 12 is a simple library module for creating graphs. It is especially useful for log writing when manual
implementation of graph rendering would be time-consuming. The advantage to creating graphs with JavaScript is
that they can be updated in real time to reflect changes to the dataset and user requirements.
Conclusion
There are many opportunities made available to us by these constantly developing web technologies. It is worth
noting, however, that due to legacy browsers, and some browser incompatibility issues, some features may require
either additional CSS attributes or code workarounds to ensure that your logs are displayed in a similar manner across
the browsers you wish to support. There are various free resources available to help identify features which may be
incompatible on certain web browsers. 13
11 The jQuery Foundation. “jQuery, write less, do more.” http://jquery.com/ .
12 Humble Software Development. “flotr2.” http://humblesoftware.com/flotr2/ .
13 Can I use… “Compatibility tables for support of HTML5, CSS3, SVG and more in desktop and mobile browsers.” www.caniuse.com .