Chapter 4. Canvas
This chapter covers
- Building graphics into web applications using HTML Canvas
- Working with text, lines, shapes, and images on Canvas
- Animating elements in Canvas
The Canvas API is new in HTML5, and it provides a means of drawing bitmap-based images inside the browser. Canvas has received a lot of media and developer attention because it is, in fact, a blank canvas upon which anyone can draw practically any visual element. In addition, because the canvas element is an HTML element like any other, it can be addressed in JavaScript as a regular element and participate in page flow and styling. Games are currently the most common use for Canvas, but any kind of image editing or drawing program could also be built using this ...
Get HTML5 for .NET Developers now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
