6. Drawing with Canvas
In 2004, Apple developed a pixel-based drawing element named canvas for the Mac OS X dashboard that was later employed in the Safari Browser. The HTML5 specification has adopted this element and its associated set of APIs to provide basic drawing functionality. Before the canvas element, browsers required a third-party plug-in to render these basic drawings. Since this is a pixel-based drawing mechanism rather than a vector and layer-based system, the underlying functionality is rudimentary; however, as you will learn in this chapter, it can still provide a means to provide rich displays.
Canvas Overview
At the heart of implementing the canvas are two components: the canvas element in the HTML and the JavaScript to perform ...
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