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In my site 'Coret Genealogy' I've used Javascript to generate pedigrees and
relationshipdiagrams on-the-fly in a browser!

By making the 'relationship' data available in a browser you can use this
for all kinds of purposes. For instance, in my site it's possible to get a
pedigree for every person in my dataset, see
http://www.coret.org/en/onlinegenealogy/public/data/pedigree.htm

Another functionality now possible is to name and show the relationship
between to people. In my site you can set a 'reference' individual, when you
browse to other people the information page about this person show the name
of the relation with the 'reference' individual. It's also possible to make
this relationship graphical visible, see
http://www.coret.org/en/onlinegenealogy/public/data/verwantschap.htm

If you have the 'relationship' data (in my case generated with a Perl script
from my GEDCOM file) in the browser you can do a lot of fun and usefull
stuff with it (a specially usefull for people without a cgi-bin and a
limited amount of webspace to generate static pages for all the stuff which
can be done easily dynamic).

Of course there's a down side:
1) you have to have some knowledge of Javascript;
2) the 'relationship' data has to be downloaded, my current dataset of 805
individuals is about 50KB in Javascript. Of course, due to the caching
mechanisms of browsers the file usually get downloaded only once.

What do you think of this functionality?


With regard,
Bob Coret

Coret Genealogy - http://www.coret.org