Highcharts is a pure JavaScript charting library and it provides an easy way of adding interactive charts to our web site or web application with minimal coding efforts.
Highcharts library is providing a wide variety of charts like line, spline, area, areaspline, column, bar, pie, scatter, angular gauges, arearange, areasplinerange, columnrange and polar chart types.
The charts which are provided by highcharts library will work well in all modern browsers including mobile devices. The highcharts will run on any server that supports HTML rendering.
Following are the important features of highcharts.
The highcharts will work with almost all the modern browsers which use SVG for graphic rendering. Even it will support legacy Internet Explorer (IE8 and before) which draw the graphics using VML.
Following table lists the different type of browser versions which the highcharts will support.
Browser | Version | Rendering Technology |
---|---|---|
Firefox | 2.0 + | SVG |
Chrome | 1.0 + | SVG |
Safari | 4.0 + | SVG |
Opera | 9.0 + | SVG |
Edge | 12.0 + | SVG |
Internet Explorer | 6.0 - 8.0 | VML |
Android | 3.0 + | SVG |
Highcharts library is free for non-commercial purposes. So, we don’t required any permission to use the highcharts library for a personal website, school site or a non-profit organization.