Admittedly, it's a hack
If you do it on the server, you can use practically any language to generate dynamic images - though you'd probably do gif or jpeg as the X-windows bitmap file format is rather inefficient.
But when you try to do the imaging on the client, your choices are rather limited - unless you're prepared to use the JVM or .Net, neither of which I've had too much on the client side.
Edited by
ChrisR
March 8, 2004, 11:26:51 PM EST