different results for the same wordlist

[willjohnson3]

I'm running into an issue where rendering the same wordlist is producing different clouds. Essentially hitting f5 in my browser will occasionally render different clouds including size+position+inclusion of terms in the cloud. from looking at the code this seems to be caused by the use of Math.random without a seed (i know math.random does not offer this option but there are lots of good alternatives)

my problem is that i'm using the cloud in an analytic application and the seeming 'randomness' of what gets displayed in the tagcloud is making users nervous about the backend.

[willjohnson3]

fwiw: using the following library gave me nice repeatable results without having to modify jqcloud.

http://davidbau.com/archives/2010/01/30/random_seeds_coded_hints_and_quintillions.html

[akastrin]

@willjohnson3: I suppose you use Math.seedrandom() function. Where did you put it?