{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/dcjones/Gadfly.jl/issues/490","repository_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/dcjones/Gadfly.jl","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/dcjones/Gadfly.jl/issues/490/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/dcjones/Gadfly.jl/issues/490/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/dcjones/Gadfly.jl/issues/490/events","html_url":"https://github.com/dcjones/Gadfly.jl/issues/490","id":49429043,"number":490,"title":"Backend Selection for IJulia Notebooks","user":{"login":"timothyrenner","id":6687064,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/6687064?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/timothyrenner","html_url":"https://github.com/timothyrenner","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/timothyrenner/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/timothyrenner/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/timothyrenner/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/timothyrenner/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/timothyrenner/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/timothyrenner/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/timothyrenner/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/timothyrenner/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/timothyrenner/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"closed","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":2,"created_at":"2014-11-19T17:47:22Z","updated_at":"2016-05-08T01:22:44Z","closed_at":"2014-11-20T13:48:31Z","body":"For plots with a large number of elements (e.g. scatterplots with a bunch of points) the resulting SVG can gum up the browser, which isn't unexpected.\r\n\r\nIt would be nice to be able to select a backend or something (i.e. render the image as a PNG and show it) that wouldn't have the browser doing so much work for those types of plots.\r\n\r\nAt the moment, my workaround for plots like this is to use [Winston](https://github.com/nolta/Winston.jl), but it would be nice to be able to use Gadfly all the way through an analysis, even when the dataset has a lot of points."},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/dcjones/Gadfly.jl/issues/comments/217681853","html_url":"https://github.com/dcjones/Gadfly.jl/issues/490#issuecomment-217681853","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/dcjones/Gadfly.jl/issues/490","id":217681853,"user":{"login":"tonyduan","id":1163598,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1163598?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/tonyduan","html_url":"https://github.com/tonyduan","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tonyduan/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tonyduan/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tonyduan/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tonyduan/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tonyduan/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tonyduan/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tonyduan/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tonyduan/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tonyduan/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2016-05-08T01:22:44Z","updated_at":"2016-05-08T01:22:44Z","body":"@timothyrenner Did you end up finding a way to set PNG as the default for all plots in IJulia?"}}