That's an odd one. Seeing as the series has no direct game-to-game continuity (Future Esthar notwithstanding) I wouldn't really think about what was "canon" as there is none between each title. Oddly enough though, I always refer to FFIX as being an "honest to god pastiche of old school FF games", which is weird because it is an FF game.
Nyeh, I dunno.
I've encountered the odd bit of presented evidence that FF Tactics takes place years and years upon years and years after FFIV, to the point that the continents have drifted and of course it no longer resembles FFIV. Also, what Roto said; the ones that have sequels are canon to each other, but even then there's supposedly a fair bit of contradiction in the FF7 compilation.
The other little oddity is Ehrgeiz. While obviously having absolutely nothing to do with the FF7 plot and merely containing characters from the game in non-canon appearances, I did actually take the manual's name for Tifa's martial art as canon purely on the logic of it being a style named after her instructor, "Zangan-ryu". Incidentally, her Ehrgeiz moveset actually made an appearance in Advent Children. That backflip everyone mistook for Somersault? Straight from Ehrgeiz! That baseball slide everyone mistook for Waterkick? Straight from Ehrgeiz! She could actually do the original Somersault and Waterkick as separate special moves in that game, but something tells me Square wanted to put something more obscure in so people would go "Holy crap it's her Ehrgeiz moveset!"
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