Awesome HTML5 Goodness
The following are just a few awesome HTML5 experiments online using the < canvas > element:
- Live photo editing with Canvas Photo Demo
- Live video editing using canvas
- Google sphere
- Online office applications with Mozilla Bespin
- Super Mario Bros
- Most of the Chrome Experiments.
- Ball pool
- Harmony
It may feel that Canvas has not been too well thought out and is a bit inferior to mordern XML-based SVG standard. It is pixel based as opposed to the vectors of SVG and its lack of accessibility doesn’t help much.
Canvas, however, can integrate very easily with our existing web pages. We can also work with canvas in much the same way we work with images in web pages.
By looking at the few examples in this article, we can get an idea of the variety of situations that Canvas can be applied to. Although the syntax may be frustrating, Canvas gives us drawing technology that we can use right away to enhance our pages.
