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Raphaël, small javascript library for manipulating images and charts (svg/vml)

• sh1mmer 18y ago
  This is pretty cool. I'm impressed that they have tested it in working in IE6+, FF3+, Safari 3+, Opera 9.5
• Locke 18y ago
  I started playing with this yesterday. It might make for a good alternative to canvas. At least from a compatibility standpoint. Internet Explorer doesn't have native support for canvas or svg, which is why Excanvas and Raphael fall back on vml to provide canvas and svg-like support, respectively. Canvas and vml really aren't a good match, though. Canvas is stateless, whereas both vml and svg insert objects into the DOM. It's this mismatch that really kills Excanvas' performance when rendering any kind of animation.
  • bootload 18y ago
    "... Internet Explorer doesn't have native support for canvas ..." Yes it does ~ http://code.google.com/p/explorercanvas/ http://code.google.com/p/explorercanvas/
    • Locke 18y ago
      Explorer Canvas aka "Excanvas" uses VML. That's kind of what my post was about. It's a very nice hack, but it's certainly not native support.
      • bootload 18y ago
        "... It's a very nice hack, but it's certainly not native support. ..." You are right. I missed that bit but does allow you to give IE users a taste. If we waited for full binary support for all things without hacks nothing would get done.
• jamongkad 18y ago
  I can think of a few apps that could use this library. Man it's really difficult to express enthusiasm over the internet.