[RobertRoberts]

Maybe this will help, it creates an SVG graphic by default.

Consider how much JS you'd have to write to even start creating all the frameworks to build in native SVG structures... a lot.

I created html graphs with tables in the late 90s, made Flash graphs in 2000s, upgrades to numerous JS based charting libraries after this, building custom graphs the whole way.

I had looked at D3 so many times over the years when it first showed up online. But it "looked" complicated, no obvious "chart" library, etc...

Finally, when I tried D3, I was like "why the f didn't I start with this?"