I recently spent a little time testing out the <canvas> element which is a nice and fairly new markup element that is included in html5. I decided to take a little Asteroids-like game that I made in a group project at the University of Oregon in Fall 2009 (we called it Space Wars) and convert it to work with the <canvas> element and Javascript.
This was very fun and surprisingly easy. A lot of the code could be copied almost exactly from the Java code and modified slightly to work with the <canvas> element. I gained the necessary background from this excellent tutorial and besides some differences between Firefox and Chrome/Opera/Safari in how to handle keyboard events there were no major obstacles along the way.
If anyone should be interested, the game can be played here:
davidlebech.com/spacewars/
The <canvas> element is definitely a nice addition to the toolkit for online webservices and it will be interesting to see what people might use it for in the future.
Its amazing David :)
You’ve always been an inspiration.. Keep up the good work!
I want to learn HTML5 some day soon myself..
Thanks Kals, you are too kind :-)
If you are specifically looking for exploring the canvas element, I would definitely recommend reading through the tutorial I mention. There are some nice examples and links to cool demos in the end.