Add more features to `.interactive()`?

[joelostblom]

What is your suggestion?

I'm wondering if it would be helpful if .interactive() did more by default. I'm primarily thinking about adding a tooltip (of the plotted encodings), and an interactive legend (based on opacity). There should of course be some way to turn these on/off, so that they don't interfere with manually set up bindings (maybe chart.interactive(legend=False).

Have you considered any alternative solutions?

No response

[dangotbanned]

User feedback

Cross-referencing some feedback I've seen in polars:

pola-rs/polars#17995 (comment)

One advantage of hvplot / bokeh is the free interactivity.
Altair does interactive too but I think only in a subset.
Please consider having a config for interactivity.

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pola-rs/polars#17995 (comment)

@joelostblom Thanks for the links.

Yup, whenever it makes sense for it to be the default, at least I would prefer interactive becoming the default.
It may not be acceptable for everyone, so whenever .interactive() is as mature as you'd like, bringing this up a poll/discussion in altair's repo will help understand what users want.

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pola-rs/polars#17995 (comment)

The new default plots from Altair have reduced the interactivity of plots. I've gone back to using hvplot because I struggled to get useful images out of Altair.

Was this a premature move considering Altair is missing essential features:

• zoom to selection
• resize plot
• hover to show datapoint

Was the main intent to deliver a basic plotting experience without adding many dependencies?

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