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- HTML5 canvas is for fire-and-forget drawing, better for pixel manipulation and memory-intensive tasks than SVG.
- SVG is declarative, good for tracking individual shapes and animations, and is a W3C Recommendation.
- Canvas uses JavaScript and a drawing context; supports transformations like translate, rotate, scale.
- The transformation matrix is cumulative; setTransform resets to identity matrix.
- Canvas is widely supported except in Internet Explorer, though it is not yet a full recommendation.
- The blog discusses Flash vs HTML5, but focuses on canvas capabilities.