A very simple starting point for using Raphael and jQuery, based on http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3613636/using-jquery-with-raphael. It draws a gray rectangle in a Raphael (SVG) canvas. When you click on the rectangle, the canvas fades out. [sample-001.html, 2012-04-21]
Exploring Raphael. This work is based on http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/javascript-ajax/an-introduction-to-the-raphael-js-library/, which is a Raphael tutorial. [sample-002.html, 2012-04-21]