Technologies

We’re targeting various browsers. Internet Explorer version 6 and above, because it’s there. Firefox because it’s better. Chrome because it may be the future. We hope to have an acceptable performance in all of these, but we know which one we use for preference.

To get going, we learned five technologies in a week.

• jQuery for making JavaScript easy to work with


• LINQ for loading XML files


• Git as a repository of our work


• Canvas as a first approach to portable visualisation


• Raphael as a better approach to portable visualisation

Our leaf image comes from forestry.about.com