Edward O'Connor wrote:
Please excuse the analogy, but try thinking about it this way: canvas is
to Photoshop as SVG is to Illustrator.
I think it's a bit more elusive than that. SVG allows bitmaps to be
imported, and subsequently filtered (blurs, displacements, channel
separations, layers, compositing, xors -- etc) ala Photoshop
Canvas has all those drawing primitives -- bezier curves, ovals, rects,
clipPaths, generally associated with vector graphics.
I think the link Matt directed us to:
Here's a comparison of the two by Christian Simms:
http://csimms.botonomy.com/2006/02/12/svg-vs-canvas-tastes-great-or-less-filling/
probably nails it closer to the mark.
DD
