2-D and 3-D Visualization leveraging mature open-standards and open-source:

1. XML/SVG via Javascript D3 -- http://d3js.org and http://www.d3noob.org

• http://it-ebooks.info/tag/html5 -- a ist of ebooks for HTML5 and 2-D graphics
• http://it-ebooks.info/book/2673 -- a book about enchant.js
• https://github.com/wise9/enchant.js -- evidently includes a WebGL plugin.

2. WebGL -- �http://it-ebooks.info/tag/webgl provides WebGL ebooks. and although threejs is used by Tony Parisi in his WegGL book, there are many choices:

• http://enchantjs.com
• http://c3dl.org
• http://cubicvr.org
• http://curve3d.com
• http://gammajs.org
• http://glge.org
• http://osgjs.org
• http://scenejs.org
• http://threejs.org
• http://spidergl.org
• http://x3dom.org
• and more ...

3. Websockets via Socket.io -- http://socket.io

4. Single Page Apps. using:

• Node.js -- http://nodejs.org
• Twitter Bootstrap / Bootswatch CSS (Less) -- http://bootswatch.com
• HTML via Jade -- http://jade-lang.com