Lazy weekend collection – some useful visualization libraries for your Javascript Applications.

jQuery SVG is a nice structured plugin that allows you to interact with SVG-Canvas Elements. It also features extensions for graphing and plotting.

Raphaël on the other hand is a simply kept library to handle your Vector-Graphics needs on the web. Especially interesting is the support of SVG as well as VML. The last one providing a decent fallback for some well known not-so-good browsers.

Interesting new development: mozilla added mozRequestAnimationFrame for better animation timing with html5 / css3 browsers. Looks very interesting, the only drawback is, that it is an experiment and not guaranteed to stay.

And finally some really awesome stuff: JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit is a stunning tool for creating infovisualizations on the web. Developed since 2008 it features a boatload of visualization techniques and what is especially impressive: you can interact with your graphs and everything is smoothly animated.