HTML5: The Wonderful Canvas

I’m pretty sure everyone’s past the whole “pretty colors” phase of HTML5, so with that in mind it’s time to explain what element makes this possible. It’s a new tag called <canvas>, and it’s pretty cool. It uses JavaScript to draw elements to a webpage. I haven’t actually had a chance to use it in depth but from I have seen, it looks to be something I’m going to like using. Other developers have already jumped at the chance and have already come up with some pretty cool things. So far I’ve found a physics engine and a playable version of Wolfenstein 3D. So has anyone done anything cool with <canvas> yet?

Written by: Brandon North