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Thank you Mark! We were actually originally using Raphael but recently switched to something custom. We got a lot more performance for our use case. I would love to open source that code at some point.

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Any specific reason to not use snapsvg?

We ended up having to duplicate some of the functionality of Raphael ourselves while writing the processing mentioned in the article (like to locate regions of an uploaded image after transformation). We thought it was best to just use this code to do the layout as well. It also ended up being a lot smaller than a full library, since we're not using a ton of features.

That said we played around with Snapsvg, and it is great if you're lucky like us and don't have to support IE6.

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