Canvas News

Welcome to the news centre, where you can find out all the latest news about both Canvas Demos and the canvas element itself.

Adobe Illustrator Canvas Plugin

Export artwork and animation from Adobe Illustrator directly to Canvas.

Internet Explorer 9 Supports Canvas!

The best news we’ve heard all year!

IE9 Preview 2 Does Not Support Canvas

Will Microsoft commit to Canvas in IE9?

Flash Demos

April Fools!

AMD Announce Canvas for IE9?

AMD accidently announce canvas support in Internet Explorer 9?

Top 100 Canvas Demos

The most popular Canvas Demos

Canvas 2D Context Splits from HTML5 Spec

Canvas’ 2D context definition has been moved.

Welcome to Canvas Demos V2.0!

Welcome to Canvas Demos version 2.0! We’ve made some changes which we’re sure you’re going to love.

WebGL Draft Specification Released!

Kronos release a draft specification of WebGL.

Microsoft Want to Seperate Canvas From HTML5

Microsoft’s Eliot Graf sent an email to the public-html@w3.org mailing list on Wednesday proposing the removal of the canvas element from the HTML5 specification, instead moving it to it’s own specification.

Chrome Frame

The functionality of Google Chrome comes to Internet Explorer via a plugin.

  • Date: September 22nd, 2009
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Firefox 3.5 Released

Mozilla have released Firefox 3.5, which improves support for HTML5 with the inclusion of the audio and video elements, and support for canvas text. Mozilla have also introduced a new JavaScript engine called TraceMonkey, meaning your canvas demos will perform better than ever before!
Download it now!

Super Mario 64 Castle (April Fools)

Canvas Demos’ April Fools joke 2009

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Now we’ve established a site for all your favourite canvas related websites, we’ve also established a Canvas Demos Twitter account.
On the Twitter account, expect links and info on the latest canvas news as well as updates to all the new canvas demos featured on the site.
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Welcome to Canvas Demos – a site dedicated to demos and tutorials for the HTML canvas element!
If you want to learn more about the canvas element; which browsers support it; and more about the Canvas Demos website, then please visit our about page. Otherwise, enjoy the demos and tutorials below!

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