I am probably assuming several things about how that would be implemented. I personally decided to abandon the idea of using Raphaeljs because it appeared to a

I am probably assuming several things about how that would be implemented. I personally decided to abandon the idea of using Raphaeljs because it appeared to assume too many things about how I was going to be interacting with the SVG objects on the canvas. I found that (for my purposes) working directly with the objects was a huge win in terms of performance.