Raphaël (JavaScript library)

Raphaël
Developer(s)	Dmitry Baranovskiy
Initial release	August 8, 2008; 17 years ago (2008-08-08)[1]
Stable release	2.3.0 / August 14, 2019; 6 years ago (2019-08-14)[2]
Repository	github.com/DmitryBaranovskiy/raphael
Written in	JavaScript
License	MIT License
Website	dmitrybaranovskiy.github.io/raphael/

Raphaël, named for Italian painter Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino,^[3] is a cross-browser JavaScript library that draws Vector graphics for web sites. It will use SVG for most browsers, but will use VML for older versions of Internet Explorer. Raphaël currently^{[as of?]} supports Chrome 5.0+ Firefox 3.0+, Safari 3.0+, Opera 9.5+ and Internet Explorer 6.0+.

Raphaël is used by first creating an instance of the Raphaël object, which manages the creation of the canvas. The following examples create a canvas that is 320 pixels wide and 200 pixels high:^{[citation needed]}

// top left of canvas at the viewport's 10,50 coordinate
var r = Raphael(10, 50, 320, 200);

// top left of canvas at the  top left corner of the #example element (in elements where dir="ltr")
var r = Raphael(document.getElementById("example"), 320, 200);

// same as above
var r = Raphael("example", 320, 200);

Once the Raphaël object has been instantiated, its various drawing, resizing and animation methods may be called to build up a vector graphic. This library includes support of Cùfon fonts, a format that turns a given font into a set of vector paths. It is extensible through plugins.^{[citation needed]}

The widget is used on the Washington Post and the Times Online websites.^{[citation needed]}

Raphaël is also used by iCloud.com, and by Mass Relevance in the White House.^[4]

• D3.js

• Wilson, Chris (December 2013). RaphaelJS. O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-1-4493-6536-3.

• Raphaël homepage
• Raphaël syntax
• Raphaël: a JavaScript API for SVG
• An introduction to Raphaël
• Raphael.js: Archived 2011-09-29 at the Wayback Machine javascript vector graphics library for the web