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.

supports Chrome 5.0+ Firefox 3.0+, Safari 3.0+, Opera 9.5+ and Internet Explorer 6.0+.

The following examples create a canvas that is 320 pixels wide and 200 pixels high:[citation needed] Once the Raphaël object has been instantiated, its various drawing, resizing and animation methods may be called to build up a vector graphic.

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