Another SVG vs Canvas paper from SVGOPEN '09 that I found useful while working early this year - http://www.svgopen.org/2009/papers/54-SVG_vs_Canvas_on_Trivial_

Another SVG vs Canvas paper from SVGOPEN '09 that I found useful while working early this year - http://www.svgopen.org/2009/papers/54-SVG_vs_Canvas_on_Trivial_Drawing_Application/ http://www.svgopen.org/2009/papers/54-SVG_vs_Canvas_on_Trivi... I wrote a prototype fence drawing app for ipad. Initial svg-only prototype turned out to be extremely slow. While in a mixed approach, svg gave flexibility of programming interactions while canvas helped me quickly render alterations in polygons of the fences as one touched and dragged. Bottomline - SVG performance degrades as number of objects, Canvas performance degrades as size of the canvas. Mix both to get the best.