Animating with Canvas

has been supported on most browsers (and emulated on others) for a while now. Web developers have done some pretty cool stuff with – from niffty reflections to very cool charting [1] & [2] to UIs. Recently, I have noticed a few examples of using to create animations. The results are pretty amazing and don’t seem to kill my CPU in the process:

  • John Resig’s processing demos [1] & [2] (I hope these get published soon)
  • Canvas Animation Kit Experiment [blog] & [demo]

And now we are getting 3D canvas too (Firefox and Opera). Sweet.

What’s it going to take to get this simple bitmap buffer into Internet Explorer?

4 Replies to “Animating with Canvas”

  1. > What’s it going to take to get this simple bitmap buffer into Internet Explorer?

    An activeX control (and some exploit to auto install it).

  2. Silverlight anybody?
    I think that Silverlight, by now, is a very cool solution with a lot of potential (Silverlight 2.0 with embedded .NET framework): not only vector graohic support, but video streaming and event handling.

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