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According to http://github.com/blog/621-bye-bye-flash-network-graph-is-no..., there are too many DOM objects involved in the graph for SVG to be performant.

Does it handle click/drag events? If you check out the network graph of repo with a lot of commiters/activity, you can click and drag the graph around. It works fantastic with canvas/javascript.

Example: http://github.com/madrobby/scriptaculous/network

Mouse interaction is quite easy with SVG; you can attach event listeners to individual SVG elements in the DOM.

I agree with you, though the upside of canvas is that it's easier to get it working on IE (via excanvas)

I wonder if the fonts would look better with SVG, as is, the branch names look terrible on canvas.

This depends entirely on your browser. Looks fine on all the mac browsers as well as firefox windows.

I tried Chrome on Vista and Ubuntu, and Firefox on Vista, looked bad in all of them.