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I can't speak for others, but if you write browser apps/websites for a generic audience you basically have no choice. The reason consist of two letters: IE

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But IE didn't support SVG either until recently? If I read right, it was supported since the same version as HTML5 canvas (IE 9),

http://caniuse.com/#cats=SVG

http://caniuse.com/canvas

Tools like http://raphaeljs.com/ allow you to support older versions of IE.

But likewise you can use excanvas.js to let your canvas code run on IE (emulates it using VML)

It is true, you can probably stop supporting IE8 depending on your audience.

[UPDATE: also I was reading SVG/DOM as an or]

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