Board Thread:General Coding Help/@comment-25483420-20160529162505/@comment-24473195-20160529203451

Saftzie wrote: Personally, I'd go with JavaScript that generates SVG on the fly, with templates and maybe LUA to provide some glue, but Internet Explorer 8 gets in the way for portability. IE didn't support SVG until IE 9.

As much as some people would like to forget it, there's still a lot of IE 8 in the world. I'm not sure what the Wikipedia module does to get around that, if it indeed gets around that. Module chart just creates html elements using divs, and a transparent image to hide some outer portions of the chart. You can see this if you disable images in your browser and look at that page, or just look at the page source.

The pie chart will render "something" reasonable in IE8 because wikia converts the transparent svg to a png.