The Canvas Tag

In line with my last post: for those interested the canvas tag is a really cool way to do programmatic drawing in the browser. It was introduced into WebKit, the rendering engine used by Safari and other Apple software, to allow easy creation of Dashboard widgets. It was later adopted into Gecko, the engine developed by Mozilla.

Besides the game I linked to in my last post, there are some other examples of the canvas tag being put to good use around the web. I personally hope that Apple will drop its ambiguous attitude about canvas tag IP so we can see this get adopted in IE. It makes graphical programming for the web fun, and if it became a standard I think we would see a lot more cool applications popping up!