Simon Willison’s Weblog

Processing.js. John Resig’s outstanding port of the Processing visualisation language to JavaScript and Canvas. Runs amazingly well in Firefox 3. One hell of a hack.

# 9th May 2008, 8:24 am / processing, john-resig, javascript, canvas

Google’s excanvas only works in quirks mode for IE8. IE8 in act-as-IE8 mode disables VML but doesn’t implement canvas, so there’s currently no 2D drawing method for that browser. UPDATE: The problem is Google’s excanvas library, not IE8 disabling VML; see comments.

# 30th March 2008, 6:24 pm / burningbird, canvas, excanvas, ie8

Blob Sallad—canvas tag and JavaScript physics simulation experiment. Björn Lindberg provides a detailed code walkthrough of his brilliant canvas demo, inspired by Loco Rocco.

# 26th January 2008, 12:25 pm / locorocco, javascript, canvas, opera, bjornlindberg, tutorial, physics

Taking the canvas to another dimension. Opera have finally released a test version with support for a opera-3d canvas context—Windows only for the moment, but Mac and Linux versions are promised “soon”.

# 16th November 2007, 1:39 pm / opera, 3d, canvas, javascript

XRAY web developer’s suite (via) Smart new bookmarklet from westciv—kind of like Steve Chipman’s MODI but with the addition of the canvas element for box model visualisation.

# 30th July 2007, 5:11 pm / jeffrey-zeldman, westciv, xray, bookmarklet, canvas, javascript, steve-chipman

Ajax3d Demo. Really impressive Virus clone, using the canvas element.

# 9th March 2007, 7 pm / canvas, ajax, 3d, ajax3d, javascript