Michael Mahemoff, author of Ajax Design Patterns, has a nice overview of solutions for dynamic graphics on AJAX enabled web pages.

He covers eight different possibilities, most of them with code examples. It seems like there is still no real solution that works across all browsers and doesn’t require a plugin. Dynamic creation of SVG or VML code looks like the most appealing solution to me. However you would have to do both, depending on IE or other browsers.

Today one of the biggest regional internet providers in Germany experienced almost a complete loss of service (in German). Rumours go on that this had to do with a DNS problem.

No matter whether this was the real reason, it reminds me that we are heavily relying on DNS infrastructure when using internet services.
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