I saw Dmitry's presentation yesterday over SnapSVG.
Raphael was, and is, meant to support older browsers. This comes with a cost of not being able to fully use everything SVG has to offer. Thus, Snap was born. He simply can't put everything into raphael to make it compatible with older browsers.
Raphael will still be getting bug fixes as the come in but is overall feature complete. In fact, Snap shares some of the same code raphael has, so maybe some bugs found in snap will be fixed in raphael as well.
Raphael was, and is, meant to support older browsers. This comes with a cost of not being able to fully use everything SVG has to offer. Thus, Snap was born. He simply can't put everything into raphael to make it compatible with older browsers.
Raphael will still be getting bug fixes as the come in but is overall feature complete. In fact, Snap shares some of the same code raphael has, so maybe some bugs found in snap will be fixed in raphael as well.