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?
That’s cool! I hadn’t seen those before. I’m curious about the 3D canvas, so thanks for the pointer links.
=Ryan
rstewart@adobe.com
> 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).
There’s a project underway to bring the 2D version to IE using VML and behaviours — http://sourceforge.net/projects/excanvas/
I’ve no idea if it could be extended to include the 3D variant.
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.