etpinard

I think we should merge this ticket with https://github.com/plotly/plotly.js/issues/1762 Any objections @monfera ?

Related https://github.com/plotly/plotly.js/issues/1259

Thanks for submitting the issue. You're making some valid points. Any company out there able to sponsor this work? https://plot.ly/products/consulting-and-oem/

> have only zero values and auto axis sets up to -1 to 1 Have you tried setting [`rangemode: 'nonnegative'`](https://plot.ly/javascript/reference/#layout-yaxis-rangemode)?

> 'This factor (computed internally) corresponds to the minimum "time" to travel across', > 'two successive x/y/z positions at the average velocity of those two successive positions.', Here's how we...

@TakodaS can you share an example of one of your use cases to help us understand the challenges you're facing? The reason we're computing a scaling factor internally is to...

Part of https://github.com/plotly/plotly.js/issues/130, but yeah this now deserves an issue of its own.

No. `1.42.0` added `line.shape` to `scattergl`, but w/o the `'spline'` value.

Some fondation work has been done in: https://github.com/plotly/plotly.js/pull/3300 Extending `axis.type: 'multicategory'` to support more than 2 levels, should allow us to graph the above examples.

When trying to implement this, I realised things were trickier than expected. At first, I thought this ticket would "only" require us to write a version of this `fillRangeItems` statement...