feature-request: interactive zoom

[jaredly]

Would be awesome, and I don't imagine it would be super difficult (especially in svg). I might work on a patch

[milimetric]

I've done this a couple of times for libraries I've built on top of d3. Please keep me in the loop, I'd like to help as well. I can maybe improve your patch.

[jaredly]

@milimetric unfortunately it looks like vega isn't actively maintained :( I've been thinking of creating a fork or just creating my own project to

• use CommonJS module system (probably browserify)
• fully unittest it (currently very minimal tests)
• have a separate repo for the "playground"
• allow rich interactivity, not just highlight-on-hover

I think this project has tons of potential, but it doesn't look like the @trifacta guys are focusing on it at the moment

[milimetric]

Hm, that would be sad if they abandoned it. The last major update was 5 months ago, so you may be right unfortunately.

I like all four improvement ideas you mention. We were looking at Vega to use as a generic visualization system at Wikimedia Foundation (analytics team). So if you fork it, there's a strong possibility that I'll help.

I agree that Vega has tons of potential, and that there's nothing else like it out there. The project I helped write, Limn, was trying the same approach - a visualization grammar. Our problem was that we had conflicting goals and lack of discipline, but Vega so far seems much cleaner.

[lianos]

There was discussion the mailing list regarding the status of this project, to which Jeff responded that it is not dead, but hibernating given the demands on his time. His expectation was that his activity will pick up more in the spring:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/vega-js/ntJTzVupv8o

[gerwitz]

See also a recent assurance from Heer on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/jeffrey_heer/status/430734460565200897

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On 25 Feb 2014, at 12:19, Steve Lianoglou notifications@github.com wrote:

There was discussion the mailing list regarding the status of this project, to which Jeff responded that it is not dead, but hibernating given the demands on his time. His expectation was that his activity will pick up more in the spring:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/vega-js/ntJTzVupv8o

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[hadley]

Related to #113

[arvind]

Vega certainly isn't abandoned :) As per @jaredly's request above:

use CommonJS module system (probably browserify)

Check!

fully unittest it (currently very minimal tests)

Check!

have a separate repo for the "playground"

Check! See vega/vega-editor

allow rich interactivity, not just highlight-on-hover

Check! See Signals and Predicates, and the interactive examples

We're very excited about Vega 2.0, we hope you all are too :)

[jaredly]

@arvind thanks for sticking with this! I'm very happy to see this progress.