Of course it's not the only way, have you seen Google's homepage? Also, JScript is actually surprising good and is nothing like the DOM or CSS, AFAIK the only

Of course it's not the only way, have you seen Google's homepage? Also, JScript is actually surprising good and is nothing like the DOM or CSS, AFAIK the only known bugs are Named Function Expressions being parsed as Function Declarations (http://kangax.github.com/nfe/#jscript-bugs http://kangax.github.com/nfe/#jscript-bugs), and a couple RegExp bugs (http://blog.stevenlevithan.com/category/cross-browser http://blog.stevenlevithan.com/category/cross-browser). I suppose if you count DOM bugs, like the memory leak, that's a problem. That's where jQuery is amazingly helpful(and presumably other libraries like it). Considering Raphael is as slow as excanvas in IE (but much faster in other browsers), it's probably IE's fault, not excanvases.