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HTML 5 Canvas Experiment Hints At Things To Come

Posted by timothy on from the faux-phlash dept.

An anonymous reader writes with an interesting and impressive demonstration of modern browsers' HTML 5 capabilities. "From the 9elements blog: 'HTML5 is getting a lot of love lately. With the arrival of Firefox 3.5, Safari 4 and the new 3.0 beta of Google Chrome, browsers support some great new features including canvas and the new audio/video tags. [...] We've created a little experiment which loads 100 tweets related to HTML 5 and displays them using a javascript-based particle engine.' The site warns "(beware: sophisticated browser needed)"; Firefox 3.5 seems to work fine.

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  1. I just checked it out with Firefox 3.5.2 by rampant+mac · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...And I see a lot of floating dots.

    "HTML 5 Canvas Experiment Hints At Things To Come"

    Seizures?

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  2. Re:Awesome by moredots · · Score: 4, Funny

    Regardless of what the answer is to this question, I am wondering if HTML 5 can provide most of the functionality of Javascript without posing as much of a security risk.

  3. Re:I dunno... by actionbastard · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Is compiling a bunch of "tweets" really the best use of all the great new HTML5 capabilities?"/em>

    It's the only use for it.

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  4. Re:Works great in Opera 10.... by MichaelSmith · · Score: 3, Funny

    I stared at this thing much longer than any sane person should have.

    Programming is complete. Return to your normal activities. You will receive instructions when required.

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  5. Extremely impressive indeed! by johannesg · · Score: 4, Funny

    In fact, it looks just like an Amiga demo from 20+ years ago!

  6. Re:Slideshow by PouletFou · · Score: 4, Funny

    Runs fine here on my pentium 3 with windows ME and netscape 4.