I really only care about Webkit, but in general, is Raphael JS expected to perform well when building thousands of rectangles?
Additionally, I would need to be able to handle events on each of these rectangles (yipes).
I've got a C++ solution which works but I'd rather use RaphaelJS.
Thanks :)
If you would like to test out performance of Raphael JS I've posted a quick example of plotting 10,000 points. Tests render and clear times.
http://jsfiddle.net/jaRhY/1049/
I don't know nothing about RaphaelJS but I can give you a performance hint with this code:
5000 rectangles moving around with "onclick" event: