What's best for drawing a calendar - SVG or canvas?

It will be a large calendar, like iCal. I started a working prototype in plain old HTML using tables (for the calendar days etc) and divs (for the entries in the calendar), but am thinking canvas or SVG might be a better fit.

The entries in a calendar are going to be interactive - drag and drop, edit开发者_如何学编程 etc. so which would be best for this application?

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SVG is better than Canvas when you have anything more than a trivial amount of interaction with individual visual portions of the drawing: you can attach event handlers directly to SVG elements and modify properties of them to move items around. SVG is a retained drawing mode graphics system, meaning that (unlike canvas) after you draw the items you can change properties of individual items and have the drawing change.

Canvas is better than SVG when you need to do interesting per-pixel effects, such as blurs or explosions.