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by marekhozak10 1114 days ago
The goal of this article was to provide an educational resource and comparison for people learning about SVG and Canvas. Based on a few comments here and elsewhere, some people learned something, so we consider that a success.

I don't think you can deny that any article, demo, post, etc that appears on a company website is inherently some kind of self-promotion. It's the same for every company. The important thing for us is that the content can stand alone if it appears under another name, on another website. In that sense, we are happy with it, and think the content is reasonable and valid. We use SVG, and are satisfied with our tool of choice. There isn't any conspiracy here.

The article doesn't focus on using libraries, because we wanted it to be accessible to everyone, including beginners. If we want to write about a specific library, we would do so in a straightforward and forthright manner just like in the article you linked here. That article was born out of questions from our customers which is why it covers additional stuff like prices, support, open-source, etc. Again, nothing too strange about that. Both articles do have some crossover in terms of themes, but so does every comparison article about SVG and Canvas, so it's not surprising. There are only so many things to discuss.