SlickCanvas is a dart framework support both SVG and HTML5 Canvas through a unified API.
SVG and HTML5 Canvas are web technologies that allow the creation of rich graphics inside the browser. As part of the DOM, SVG can be created with markup and modified by CSS or programmaticaly through script, it provide better scalability and animation support. HTML5 Canvas programmatically rendering of bitmap images through JavaScript API, it has better performance when rendering complex objects. A detailed comparison can be find here.. While SVG's performance decreases when number of drawing objects increase, the performance of HTML5 suffers when canvas size became bigger. A nice performance comparison can be found in this article.
When developing a new application, it might be difficult to decide which technology to use. SmartCanvas made it possible to start a project with one technology and instantely switch to another at any point without wasting time. With multiple layer support, SamrtCanvas provides the ability to create SVG/HTML5 Canvas hybrid applications. SmartCanvas pushs performance in high priority, through a innovative method, SmartCanvas can create HTML5 canvas application for big screen.