René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"The WebGL scatter plots should support multiline date axis tick labels","articleBody":"Dates in general need more space than numbers, and the truncation of dates is less clear-cut than that of numbers; also, breaking up numbers to multiple lines is very rarely desirable in practice.\n\nSVG charts can already show dates in a multiline format, whereas the `WebGL` scatterplot cannot yet (see image below).\n\nThe original [issue comment](https://github.com/plotly/plotly.js/issues/995#issuecomment-253351083) is associated with a [PR](https://github.com/plotly/plotly.js/pull/1033) (and a bunch of `gl-vis` PRs) that brought in the functionality of showing dates on `WebGL` scatterplots.\n\n@etpinard conveyed the request that this issue be addressed.\n\nPrevious mentions:\n- [Code comment](https://github.com/plotly/plotly.js/blob/f7a8afa3eb122755e4497581bb11faf772465c71/src/plots/gl2d/scene2d.js#L242-L243)\n- [Related issue comment](https://github.com/plotly/plotly.js/issues/995#issuecomment-253351083)\n- [Overview of `gl2d` limitations](https://github.com/plotly/plotly.js/issues/130), which this is an element of\n\n![image](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/1548516/19683409/5ddf1dca-9ab2-11e6-8154-bd4aec631c49.png)\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/monfera","@type":"Person","name":"monfera"},"datePublished":"2016-10-25T10:56:00.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":0},"url":"https://github.com/1079/plotly.js/issues/1079"}