Here's why Raphael.js and SVG totally rock.

Re:Here's why Raphael.js and SVG totally rock. by arethuza on Thursday April 22, 2010 @05:23PM (#1286508)

Canvas is pixel oriented whereas with SVG you have a hierarchical document structure to work with.

So if you want to do an online image editor I'd probably go with canvas. For something that needs multiple objects with their own individual event handling - SVG looks a lot easier to me.

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Re:Here's why Raphael.js and SVG totally rock. by steadicat on Thursday April 22, 2010 @05:44PM (#1286561)

SVG is easier out of the box, but you can also use a "scene graph" JavaScript library to create an object abstraction on top of Canvas. In my experience managing the scene graph in JS turns out to be much faster than letting the browser handle it with SVG.

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