diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index b602eb8f..75be86ac 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -18,8 +18,8 @@ script:
  - julia -e 'Pkg.clone("https://github.com/tbreloff/ImageMagick.jl.git"); Pkg.checkout("ImageMagick","tb_write"); Pkg.build("ImageMagick")'
  - julia -e 'Pkg.clone("https://github.com/tbreloff/VisualRegressionTests.jl.git");'
  - julia -e 'Pkg.clone("https://github.com/tbreloff/ExamplePlots.jl.git");'
- - julia -e 'Pkg.checkout("Blink"); Pkg.build("Blink"); import Blink; Blink.AtomShell.install()'
- - julia -e 'Pkg.checkout("PlotlyJS")'
+ - julia -e 'Pkg.clone("https://github.com/JunoLab/Blink.jl.git"); Pkg.build("Blink"); import Blink; Blink.AtomShell.install()'
+ - julia -e 'Pkg.clone("https://github.com/spencerlyon2/PlotlyJS.jl.git")'
  # - julia -e 'Pkg.add("Cairo"); Pkg.build("Cairo")'
  - julia -e 'ENV["PYTHON"] = ""; Pkg.add("PyPlot"); Pkg.build("PyPlot")'
  - julia -e 'Pkg.test("Plots"; coverage=false)'
diff --git a/src/backends/plotly.jl b/src/backends/plotly.jl
index d44c8793..0486cbc0 100644
--- a/src/backends/plotly.jl
+++ b/src/backends/plotly.jl
@@ -270,6 +270,7 @@ const _plotly_markers = KW(
 
 # get a dictionary representing the series params (d is the Plots-dict, d_out is the Plotly-dict)
 function plotly_series(d::KW; plot_index = nothing)
+    # dumpdict(d,"series",true)
   d_out = KW()
 
   x, y = collect(d[:x]), collect(d[:y])
@@ -404,10 +405,10 @@ function plotly_series(d::KW; plot_index = nothing)
       )
   end
 
-  # convert polar plots x/y to r/t
+  # convert polar plots x/y to theta/radius
   if get(d, :polar, false)
-      d_out[:r] = pop!(d_out, :x)
-      d_out[:t] = pop!(d_out, :y)
+      d_out[:t] = pop!(d_out, :x)
+      d_out[:r] = pop!(d_out, :y)
   end
 
   # # for subplots, we need to add the xaxis/yaxis fields