When comparing Shield UI vs jqPlot, the Slant community recommends Shield UI for most people. In the question“What are the best JavaScript charting libraries? ” Shield UI is ranked 3rd while jqPlot is ranked 20th. The most important reason people chose Shield UI is:
There are more than 20 types of charts available for use.
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Pros
Pro Many chart types available
There are more than 20 types of charts available for use.
Pro Wrappers for ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC and Apache Wicket available
Each chart can be implemented to ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC applications, with detailed documentation and guides for each.
Pro Supports combining different charts
Each of the available charts has documentation and guides available for every different implementation (JavaScript, ASP.NET etc.)
Pro Supports combining different charts
You can combine different charts (they can be of the same type or even different types of charts) to display data correlations.
Pro Charts update automatically
Content renders as an image and can be updated automatically with Ajax.
Cons
Con Commercial
Pay by developer starting from 349$.
Con No longer supported
If you are just starting off with a JavaScript charting library you shouldn't invest your time learning jqPlot. Once a great tool it hasn't been updated in several years and there is virtually no activity on the Google Groups forum these days.