For full-window animations, canvas would be pretty slow in many browsers. Also SVG hasn't always had the best browser support. I use DOM based animations for ht

For full-window animations, canvas would be pretty slow in many browsers. Also SVG hasn't always had the best browser support. I use DOM based animations for http://worldofsolitaire.com http://worldofsolitaire.com and it has worked great for many years. On my To-Do list is adding support for CSS transforms where possible so that the animations can be hardware accelerated when available.