Canvas has some advantages, like working in IE, and easily exporting to PNG.

I think you have your technologies mixed up. SVG has worked in every IE version since 5.

It's Canvas that IE has trouble with. The fix, in fact, is to convert your Canvas calls to SVG so that IE can render them.

I think you meant to say PNG?

My original post though:

"SVG has worked in every IE version since 5."

My experience here, and wikipedia, say otherwise:

"The use of SVG on the web is still limited by the lack of support in older versions of Internet Explorer (IE) which (as of December 2010) is the most widely-used browser. The most widely deployed version of IE (version 8) does not support SVG.[46][47] However, IE9 (released March 14, 2011) does support the basic SVG feature set.[48]"

and:

"Internet Explorer, up to and including IE8, was the only major browser not to provide native SVG support. Native support became partially available in IE9 (the current version of IE, as of March 2011),[48] including embedding SVG-file into HTML using “object” tag as well as “img” tag. IE8 and older require a plug-in to render SVG content."

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalable_Vector_Graphics#Suppor...

But you have it mixed up too.

IE has had VML (not SVG) since version 5. VML is similar, but not the same.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_Markup_Language