Development Blog by max

Max and the story of the three histograms. Sunday, January 30, 2011 2:41:58 PM

There once was a developer named Max.

Who was wondering through the wild world of Histograms 

He decided that he needed one so he created one.

But that did not fully make max happy so he tried to add the other channel's histograms.

But that did not fully make max happy, this histogram is too busy he said, so he went back to the old one.  But that didn't make max happy, this histogram is too server computationally intensive, it doesn't scale well he said.

So he worked and he worked in his little lab and created a CANVAS histogram.

It was pretty and scaled and was almost just right.  But it did not make Max happy. "I don't want the server to have to compute at all!" he said. So he worked and worked and got Javascript to create the histogram.

"But it locks up the browser!" Firefox said.

Max worked and worked and int the end created a WEB WORKER to make the browser not lock up.

"This histogram" said Max, "is just right."

(On every photo's details page, click the histogram button)