And i’ve just stumbled on paperjs.
paperjs is born out of a project called Scriptographer, which is definately not where i’m you pointing at.
It’s a framework for drawing in canvas which it has great potential to kick someones ass.

What i really like about it is it’s simplicity in terms of reading. Ok, maybe it’s the fact that they really tried to do it the Flash way. But i’m fine with that, Flash has long proven it’s strength and power. Since i don’t like to use Flash anymore mostly due to it’s closiness and javaness, i’m really happy that there’ll soon be alternatives – at least for small projects.

But watch it for yourself:

And in their own words:

Paper.js — The Swiss Army Knife of Vector Graphics Scripting.
Paper.js is an open source vector graphics scripting framework that runs on top of the HTML5 Canvas. It offers a clean Scene Graph / Document Object Model and a lot of powerful functionality to create and work with vector graphics and bezier curves, all neatly wrapped up in a well designed, consistent and clean programming interface.

get it while it’s hot.