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There may be no greater apostasy in HTML5 than the creation of the <canvas> tag, a marker used for reserving a rectangular chunk of real estate where JavaScript code can manipulate individual pixels.

The HTML5 Canvas element promises web developers a web-native way to create animations, interactive charts and even full-fledged apps like image editors and complicated games. Canvas may well be ...

Firefox and IE displaying canvas graphics elements side by side. Picture courtesy Vladimir Vukicevic’s blog According to Mozilla engineer Vladimir Vukicevic, Internet Explorer isn’t adapting ...

One of the first steps towards achieving this goal is a new experimental plugin that adapts Mozilla's implementation of the HTML5 Canvas element so that it can be used in Internet Explorer.

Version 18 of the Chrome Web browser has rolled out to the stable channel. The new version includes hardware-accelerated rendering for the HTML5 Canvas element on Windows and Mac OS X.