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By robodesign Thursday, 8. January 2009, 13:48:26

HTML 5 canvas - the basics

HTML 5 canvas is a powerful, flexible way to create two dimensional graphics on web pages using scripting, and a number of previous dev.opera.com articles have demonstrated usage of it already. This article goes back to basics, giving beginners a starting point to work from and explaining the basics. Get drawing!

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By Fyrd Thursday, 8. January 2009, 18:36:47

Nice article!

One error found: The "Newton polynomial" link is wrong, it currently goes to the Spirograph widget.

By chrismills Friday, 9. January 2009, 16:27:27

Originally posted by Fyrd:

One error found: The "Newton polynomial" link is wrong, it currently goes to the Spirograph widget.

Fixed! Sorry about that.

By pepelsbey Monday, 12. January 2009, 22:47:45

Using low-quality JPG (16 million colors) for example images (with 2 colors) was a bad idea, i guess.
It looks really strange. God bless PNG!

By WinTunAung007 Wednesday, 14. January 2009, 15:59:59

သူငယ္ခ်င္းတို႕ Opera 9.6 Myanmar Unicode ကို ဘယ္လိုလုပ္ရမလဲေျပာျပၾကပါကြာ

By michaeladams Thursday, 22. January 2009, 12:35:26

Great tutorial. I appreciate it that you publish also materials for beginners who often need some starting point for their work. Yesterday I wanted to interest some of my inexperienced colleagues with HTML 5 canvas and that piece of material seems to have cought their attention. Thanks!

By mcasperson Tuesday, 30. June 2009, 10:42:27

Brighthub also has a tutorial for creating a simple platformer game using the canvas element.

http://www.brighthub.com/internet/web-development/articles/38364.aspx

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