visotank now has AJAX-loaded SVG graphics. The hooks are there to actually do something when you click on stuff, but it doesn’t do anything. The visualization is ripped from my visterity plugin for posterity; it’s not supposed to be new or exciting. The fact that the SVG is loaded via AJAX is new (visterity didn’t have that) and exciting. Pretty much everything else is simply legwork relating to using application/xhtml+xml instead of txt/html and the ramifications of that, especially with AJAX.

I’ve updated what is running at http://clicky.visophyte.org:8080/, but it looks like my VPS has some issues, so I wouldn’t be surprised if it things hang or are very slow when not yet cached.  (Specifically, I think it has very serious IO issues, but its absurd amounts of memory available avoid that problem from impacting things too much.)  (Normal slowness like its refusal to pipeline requests and there being hundreds of images is not a VM problem.)  Also, the SVG stuff is unlikely to work on anything but Firefox 2; at least 3.0a8 gets angry for me on gutsy.

To see the SVG graphs, the steps are: 1) select at least one contact in the contacts list, 2) click on the ‘conversations’ tab in the bottom half, select a conversation (you can only select one), and 3) click on the ‘conversation’ tab in the bottom half.  I should note that you might want to wait for all of the sparkbars to load before proceeding to the next step…