Canvas Compared to Flash
We’ve covered this topic in earlier chapters, but we expect that a large portion of readers might have previously developed games in Flash. If so, you will find that Canvas offers similar functionality in certain areas, but lacks some of the more refined features of Flash.
- No Flash timeline
There is no frame-based timeline for animation intrinsic to Canvas. This means that we will need to code all of our animations using images and/or paths, and apply our own frame-based updates.
- No display list
Flash AS3 offers the very powerful idea of an object display list; a developer can add hundreds of individual physical display objects to the game screen. HTML5 Canvas has only a single display object (the canvas itself).
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