2 years ago, and it's Dmitry Baranovsky's update to Raphäel.js rather than a big Adobe Project™ (which sacks off support for older browsers in favour of newer).

2 years ago, and it's Dmitry Baranovsky's update to Raphäel.js rather than a big Adobe Project™ (which sacks off support for older browsers in favour of newer). And there's never been that much movement bar minor bugfixes for a long time. Not that there necessarily needs to be, it does what it does, but there doesn't seem to be any movement toward integrating closely with Adobe vector products (which would be useful) or seriously optimising (like, say, Greensock's really nice SVG animation stuff that's come out recently). Also IMO the two main competitors are better (SVG.js for simplicity & very nice plugins, Paper.js for complex stuff with amazing documentation). Note Paper.js is the successor to the Illustrator plugin Scriptographer, which was fantastic, but was killed by Adobe Illustrator updates - Adobe had something they could have used that worked really, really well, but didn't back it. Snap is good, and useful, but it's not that useful, it's just a tiny library, and a bit of a wasted opportunity IMO. With fairly crap documentation beyond the basics. I would love it if there was movement on this, a better SVG workflow from Illustrator -> Web would make my life a lot less frustrating, but v0v it's Adobe and they either move at the speed of a geriatric snail or they stomp all over tools I find useful