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 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 ...

John Papa is a Microsoft Regional Director and former Microsoft technical evangelist. Author of 100-plus articles and 10 books, he specializes in professional application development with Windows, ...

If the latest flashy HTML5 experiments have you fired up to experiment with HTML5’s canvas element yourself, one seasoned developer has some advice for newcomers — particularly those coming from Flash ...

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 ...

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"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 ...

While paint, canvas and brushes have largely stayed the same over the past few centuries, the Internet offers dynamic, cutting-edge tools to create digital art. HTML5 is one such evolution of new ...