Canvas demo for Mozilla Firefox Deer Park Alpha 1

hm, I don't get it.
Isn't this something that should be done in SVG?
does Obera, MSIE [,anyOtherNonGeckoBrowser] support CANVAS?

Safari supposedly does. (They invented it?)

Comment by David Naylor at June 1, 2005 09:14 AM | Permalink

Jens: SVG is vector graphics, canvas is bitmap graphics. And yes, Safari supports canvas.

Comment by marcoos at June 1, 2005 09:15 AM | Permalink

The demo doesn't work in Safari 2.0 :/

On Windows I get the entire field selected when I click one of the shapes, only shift-clicking will let each shape do its' stuff without selecting the whole area.
This is intentional?

No, the too easily selecting bug is: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=294852

This isn't a particularly good demo of canvas, in that the person above is right - it's something which is probably more suitable for SVG. It would be nice to see a canvas demo of (say) a paint program which would be much harder in SVG.

But then, given that I'm not offering to write one, I can hardly complain...

Comment by Gerv at June 2, 2005 10:54 PM | Permalink

You may be interested in a Graffiti-style gesture recognition page, that I wrote in javascript, which uses the canvas for the display: http://blog.monstuff.com/archives/000263.html

Comment by Julien Couvreur (Dumky) at September 27, 2005 04:42 AM | Permalink

http://hutzlprecm.com/stuff/canvas/canvas.html
i was just bored in work today and played around with canvas...

another cool application:
http://ueluei.googlepages.com/pixvolution.html

Here are some canvas demos I created: http://teethgrinder.co.uk/blog/Firefox-canvas-tag--fractal-trees/