“Perusing sites like Google Finance, Yahoo Finance, FXCM, ForXCharts, and other ForEx sites, a pattern emerges: all of these sites implement their user experience using a combination of plug-ins, extensions, or constructs which require server round-tripping for interactivity. Because these sites need to format currencies, present dates according to a specific locale, and sort strings like stock tickers with locale specific string comparison, the Web platform comes up short for them today.”
“Aside from the ActiveX control which provides support for the API [until the API is approved], the user experience of our ForEx test drive demo is written 100% in JavaScript. It uses jqPlot to chart the currency exchanges format dates and currencies in JavaScript. At the top of the demo, you can pick a Foreign Exchange pair, such as comparing EUR/JPY and view it with a locale specific date format by selecting the ja-JP-u-nu-latin language tag. When you hit the “Plot with Intl” you’ll see the JavaScript API in action.”
