Thanks for the detailed comment. As you might imagine, I think the killer feature of D3 is the binding of data to the DOM and all the awesome manipulation that

Thanks for the detailed comment. As you might imagine, I think the killer feature of D3 is the binding of data to the DOM and all the awesome manipulation that is possible (via CSS/javascript/jquery etc.). It also happens to scale very well for us. So I look for examples where Canvas is a better fit.