Canvas or what?

Question

I'm making a social networking site, and it will have a 'group map' which shows all the groups with their importance with lines connecting them all. Here is an example of what I am aiming out. The problem is I don't know whether to use a HTML5 canvas or something else. The problem with a canvas, though, is the IE compatibility issues. Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Have you checked out the Google Charts API? It can generate all kinds of charts and graphs. It may have a chart that you could use for this: http://code.google.com/apis/chart/

Answer 2

For IE you have at least a few options: ex-canvas, http://www.google.com/chromeframe or just ignoring it :)

Answer 3

You could try SVG with Raphael Javascript library, http://raphaeljs.com. For IE it uses IE's VML, so usually the difference is imperceptible.