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We've looked at some tips and tricks for working with canvas in the past. At Mozilla's recent Open Web Gaming conference, Ernesto Jiménez, lead developer at gaming company Six to Start, outlined some ...

The five characters HTML5 are now an established buzzword, found everywhere on the Web and often given top billing in slides, feature lists, and other places where terms du jour congregate.

We’ve been writing about HTML5 for quite a while, but, until today, the actual HTML5 specs and standards were still moving targets. Now, however, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has announced that ...

Sometimes you want to render a visual on the fly, or even animate it. Perhaps the visual is a complex path where the set of x,y coordinates dictate what to render. Or perhaps the visual is a graph ...

One of the exciting features of HTML5 is the promise of universally supported animation and graphics via the new canvas element/tag. In this post, I look at how easy it is to use this tag with a ...

"The Canvas tag is a revolutionary advance in what we can do with web browsers," says author David Flanagan. "I really do think that the client-side graphics enabled by the Canvas tag has the ...

HTML5 has been billed as a means for developers to create modern Web applications, complete with support for multimedia functionality like video and Canvas 2D. Its emergence has led to questions about ...

A developer named Kevin Roast has created a slick demo of the arcade classic Asteroids using the Canvas element inside HTML5. Use the arrow keys and the space bar to control your ship. Also highly ...