diff --git a/src/report/report-system/html-barchart.scm b/src/report/report-system/html-barchart.scm
index 5cf706e787..36a6b0cfe4 100644
--- a/src/report/report-system/html-barchart.scm
+++ b/src/report/report-system/html-barchart.scm
@@ -142,6 +142,14 @@
 ;; used for all of the rows. Otherwise we could have cols*rows urls
 ;; (quite a lot), but this first requires fixing
 ;; guppi_bar_1_callback() in gnome/gnc-html-guppi.c .
+;; FIXME url's haven't been working since GnuCash 1.x
+;;       GnuCash 2.x switched from guppy to goffice, which
+;;       made it very hard to remain the url functionality
+;;       At this point I (gjanssens) is in the process of
+;;       moving from goffice to jqplot for our charts
+;;       which perhaps may allow urls again in the charts
+;;       I'm keeping the parameters below around to remind
+;;       us this still has to be investigated again
 (define gnc:html-barchart-button-1-bar-urls
   (record-accessor <html-barchart> 'button-1-bar-urls))
 
@@ -352,7 +360,7 @@
                          (push ");\n"))))
     (if (and (list? data)
              (not (null? data))
-	     (gnc:not-all-zeros data))
+             (gnc:not-all-zeros data))
         (begin
             (push (gnc:html-js-include "jqplot/jquery.min.js"))
             (push (gnc:html-js-include "jqplot/jquery.jqplot.js"))
@@ -394,7 +402,9 @@
             (push "var options = {
                    shadowAlpha: 0.07,
                    stackSeries: false,
-                   legend: { show: true, },
+                   legend: {
+                        show: true,
+                        placement: \"outsideGrid\", },
                    seriesDefaults: {
                         renderer: $.jqplot.BarRenderer,
                         rendererOptions: {
@@ -520,110 +530,8 @@
 
             (gnc:msg (string-join (reverse (map (lambda (e) (if (number? e) (number->string e) e)) retval)) ""))
  
-          (push "<object classid=\"")(push GNC-CHART-BAR)(push "\" width=")
-          (push (gnc:html-barchart-width barchart))
-          (push " height=") 
-          (push (gnc:html-barchart-height barchart))
-          (push ">\n")
-          (if title
-              (begin 
-                (push "  <param name=\"title\" value=\"")
-                (push title) (push "\">\n")))
-          (if subtitle
-              (begin 
-                (push "  <param name=\"subtitle\" value=\"")
-                (push subtitle) (push "\">\n")))
-          (if url-1
-              (begin 
-                (push "  <param name=\"bar_urls_1\" value=\"")
-                (push url-1)
-                (push "\">\n")))
-          (if url-2
-              (begin 
-                (push "  <param name=\"bar_urls_2\" value=\"")
-                (push url-2)
-                (push "\">\n")))
-          (if url-3
-              (begin 
-                (push "  <param name=\"bar_urls_3\" value=\"")
-                (push url-3)
-                (push "\">\n")))
-          (if legend-1 
-              (begin 
-                (push "  <param name=\"legend_urls_1\" value=\"")
-                (push legend-1)
-                (push "\">\n")))
-          (if legend-2
-              (begin 
-                (push "  <param name=\"legend_urls_2\" value=\"")
-                (push legend-2)
-                (push "\">\n")))
-          (if legend-3 
-              (begin 
-                (push "  <param name=\"legend_urls_3\" value=\"")
-                (push legend-3)
-                (push "\">\n")))
-          (if (and data (list? data))
-              (let ((rows (length data))
-                    (cols 0))
-                (push "  <param name=\"data_rows\" value=\"")
-                (push rows) (push "\">\n")
-                (if (list? (car data))
-                    (begin 
-                      (set! cols (length (car data)))
-                      (push "  <param name=\"data_cols\" value=\"")
-                      (push cols)
-                      (push "\">\n")))           
-                (push "  <param name=\"data\" value=\"")
-                (let loop ((col 0))
-                  (for-each 
-                   (lambda (row)
-                     (push (ensure-numeric (list-ref-safe row col)))
-                     (push " "))
-                   data)
-                  (if (< col (- cols 1))
-                      (loop (+ 1 col))))
-                (push "\">\n")))
-          (if (and (string? x-label) (> (string-length x-label) 0))
-              (begin 
-                (push "  <param name=\"x_axis_label\" value=\"")
-                (push x-label)
-                (push "\">\n")))
-          (if (and (string? y-label) (> (string-length y-label) 0))
-              (begin 
-                (push "  <param name=\"y_axis_label\" value=\"")
-                (push y-label)
-                (push "\">\n")))
-          (if (and (string? col-colors) (> (string-length col-colors) 0))
-              (begin 
-                (push "  <param name=\"col_colors\" value=\"")
-                (push col-colors)
-                (push "\">\n")))
-          (if (and (string? row-labels) (> (string-length row-labels) 0))
-              (begin 
-                (push "  <param name=\"row_labels\" value=\"")
-                (push row-labels)
-                (push "\">\n")))
-          (if (and (string? col-labels) (> (string-length col-labels) 0))
-              (begin 
-                (push "  <param name=\"col_labels\" value=\"")
-                (push col-labels)
-                (push "\">\n")))
-	  (push "  <param name=\"rotate_row_labels\" value=\"")
-	  (push (if (gnc:html-barchart-row-labels-rotated? barchart)
-		    "1\">\n"
-		    "0\">\n"))
-	  (push "  <param name=\"stacked\" value=\"")
-	  (push (if (gnc:html-barchart-stacked? barchart)
-		    "1\">\n"
-		    "0\">\n"))
-	  (push "  <param name=\"legend_reversed\" value=\"")
-	  (push (if (gnc:html-barchart-legend-reversed? barchart)
-		    "1\">\n"
-		    "0\">\n"))
-          (push "Unable to push bar chart\n")
-          (push "</object> &nbsp;\n"))
+        )
         (begin 
-	  (gnc:warn "barchart has no non-zero data.")
-	  " "))
+          (gnc:warn "barchart has no non-zero data.")
+            " "))
     retval))