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n8agrin on March 16, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Internet Explorer 9: Platform Preview

But it should support SVG. I'm not convinced canvas is the greatest in-browser rendering option for many of the things web devs want to do anyhow like click handlers and simple animations. There is a reason why many browser-based vis libraries are switching over to SVG (and VML in older IEs).

mcantelon on March 16, 2010 | [–]

There's always been separate use-cases for pixel and vector-based graphics.

sketerpot on March 16, 2010 | [–]

Even so, canvas is useful and I'd really like to have it available.

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