DOM
Supports all browsers, but performance not great
- Vector Graphics in JS
Canvas
Firefox, Safari, but not IE
- Canvas
SVG
All browsers, IE with plugin (but Adobe is pulling their pluggin)
- SVG
- examples
- firefox
- javacsript
- Adobe Discontinuing SVG plug for IE
- SVG -> VML to enable IE support not Open Source
- VML -> SVG via style sheet
VML
IE only, although thre is a library that maps Canvas calls to VML
- VML->Canvas
Server Side Image
Portable, and with Ajax interactive
- server side chart example
Random (but not general solutions)
- Bar Graphs / Sparklines