Dylan Schiemann has posted his presentations on dojo.gfx which are themselves written in dojo.gfx instead of Powerpoint/Keynote/S5.
It would be nice if you some key bindings were put into the presentations :)
Dylan Schiemann, co-creator of the Dojo toolkit, has written a broad piece on creating cross browser vector graphics with Dojo.
The article delves into the new dojo.gfx library that abstracts the slight mess of SVG vs. Canvas vs. VML.
One of the examples in the article discusses drawing a clock with this snippet that shows drawing the clock hands, along with their shadows:

What features are supported
If you have wanted "the ability to draw and modify non-rectangular, browser-native shapes" then check out the article and dig deeper: