Chapter 12. Drawing with HTML5
In the past, the most common method for drawing on a webpage was by using Adobe Flash. As the quest to create browsers that don’t require plug-ins to display multimedia continues, a large gap in functionality has been filled with the ability to draw in HTML5 by using the <canvas> element and to create and display Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) by using the <svg> element.
Although Adobe Flash still provides more functionality than the <canvas> element, you might find that the <canvas> element is all you need and that you don’t need to add a third-party product to your application.
SVG is a language by which to define two-dimensional graphics in XML, and the XML can be rendered by the browser by using the <svg> element. ...
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