fancybox vs Raphael: What are the differences?

Developers describe fancybox as "JavaScript lightbox library for presenting various types of media". It is a tool that offers a nice and elegant way to add zooming functionality for images, html content and multi-media on your webpages. It is built on the top of the popular JavaScript framework jQuery and is both easy to implement and a snap to customize. On the other hand, Raphael is detailed as "JavaScript library that draws Vector graphics for web sites". It 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.

fancybox and Raphael belong to "Javascript Utilities & Libraries" category of the tech stack.

Some of the features offered by fancybox are:

• Looks great on every device
• Swipe to navigate, spread/pinch to zoom in/out supported on touch devices
• Supports most popular sites as YouTube, Vimeo and Google maps out of the box

On the other hand, Raphael provides the following key features:

• Cross-browser
• Designed specifically for artists and graphic designers
• You are given the power of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) to be able to use your web browser to created detailed drawings

fancybox and Raphael are both open source tools. It seems that Raphael with 10.3K GitHub stars and 1.59K forks on GitHub has more adoption than fancybox with 6.36K GitHub stars and 1.58K GitHub forks.