Wouldn't SVG be a much more natural target for Flash than <canvas> is? What is the benefit of <canvas> over SVG?
It seems like it would be easier to do effective hardware acceleration for SVG than it would be to do the same for <canvas>.
It seems like it would be easier to do effective hardware acceleration for SVG than it would be to do the same for <canvas>.
"When initial work on an XML-based graphics interchange format began, the natural first thought was to use SVG. However, there are key differences between SVG and Flash Player's graphics capabilities. These include core differences in SVG and Flash's rendering model with regards to filters, transforms and text. Additionally, the interchange format needed to be able to support future Flash Player features, which would not necessarily map to SVG features. As such, the decision was made to go with a new interchange format, FXG, instead of having a non-standard implementation of SVG. FXG does borrow from SVG whenever possible.
"It is important to note that this specification follows much of the SVG specification format organization as well as copying related concept prose. The SVG specification is available at http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/.
It's just that <canvas> has a shitload more momentum than SVG ever had.
webgl could be another candidate.