check the canvas snow demo

In one of my last posts I created a snow storm with jquery and div elements, one disadvantages Of course is that the flakes are square. one advantage is that using divs makes it far more easier to create a creative snowstorm. For example the script could be easily recreated in a snow-tagcloud. Therefore I decides to recreate a snowstorm example this time however with the html5 canvas tag.
Beside the features I was curious about the performance of the animation. I expected the Canvas element to outrun jQuery and the DOM, in terms of animation. And indeed I ran both scripts with 1000 flakes and the canvas animation run much smoother.

And of course round snow flakes appear much more realistic