[coldtea]

The obvious. That canvas is just a set of pixels with colors (a bitmap image). To get animation, you have to explicitly change them every X milliseconds.

Whereas SVG has actual objects, that you can apply items like animateTransform, animateMotion etc to them directly, in a declarative style.

[Kiro]

Ok, thanks. I didn't know that. I thought you had to clear/redraw the SVG for animation as well.