40 HTML5 Canvas for Inspiration

Written by denbagus on Feb 02, 2012 | 0 Comments | 341 views

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There has been a debate waging some time already about the use of Flash or HTML5 Canvas, which became pretty intense when it became obvious that Apple would not support Flash on its mobile devices. With big websites slowly implementing canvas, the constant updates from browsers(dear IE excluded) and the gaining popularity of HTML5 the debate is still ongoing.

The use of canvas still needs to take off, right now it is still in a ‘trial’ stage due to browsers limitation and lack of wide resource of code and tutorials. Canvas is in its childhood but growing up fast.

HTML5 offers a wide variety of advanced functionality over what HTML was originally capable of. Perhaps the most powerful aspect of HTML5 is the HTML5 canvas. The canvas element is a drawable region defined in HTML code with height and width attributes. JavaScript code can access the canvas through a full set of drawing functions allowing for dynamically generated graphics.

In this post, you’ll find 40 HTML5 Canvas for Inspiration that show just a bit of the power of the canvas and demonstrates what you can accomplish with it.