In the early part of this book the emphasis was on creating graphics by drawing on the canvas. By contrast the latter part of the book is about loading graphics files into the canvas. Why would you ...

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 the ...

One of the operations that low-level APIs tend to give you that higher level graphics systems tend to ignore is the bitblt - bit-block operation (pronounced bit-blit). This is essentially a low-level ...

One of the exciting features of HTML5 is the promise of universally supported animation and graphics via the new canvas element/tag. In this post, I look at how easy it is to use this tag with a ...