Best way to provide charts on the web? Server-side or client-side library? HTML5?

Programmer Question

Hello

What would you sugges to provide a chart (line-based) on the web? I need to make something similar to a burn-down chart or stocks over time. The server side is django and using jquery for the client stuff.

What are the advantages to using something like pychart or some other python plot library which can produce an svg or png and display it?

Or providing the data in tables and using visualize or highchart for jquery to make generate the chart using javascript?

I would like to put points on the chart which are clickable, or which show more information on the specific turn.

What options are available with HTML5, does it come with builtin support for charts or do I have to do it with canvas only?

Thanks for your help.

Edit/Update. Thanks all for the suggestions.

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