It only requires flash for rendering on browsers which don't have native SVG support - i.e. everyone except IE gets native rendering, and on IE it uses a flash

It only requires flash for rendering on browsers which don't have native SVG support - i.e. everyone except IE gets native rendering, and on IE it uses a flash object to do the rendering. There's really not much alternative to this - people forget how backward IE is, in many respects. The only other way to do this really, is to use IE's VML 'support' to do the SVG rendering, which is what Dojo.GFX (http://www.dojotoolkit.org/book/dojo-book-0-9/part-3-programmatic-dijit-and-dojo/drawing-gfx http://www.dojotoolkit.org/book/dojo-book-0-9/part-3-program...) currently does. The drawback to doing that, is that MS has been successively sabotaging their VML support with each IE release, degrading it each time, presumably on purpose.