Public preview of canvas implementation available
Tuesday, 16. December 2008, 16:32:31
For the Pantheon Online Games site we have created an Altar Dress-Up application. You may have read about this in my previous blog post.
This application is now up for public preview. It heavily uses the new Canvas element that will be part of HTML5, and requires the use of Javascript. People using browsers that either have Javascript turned off or do not understand the Canvas element, are out of luck.
One eerie thing I found: all modern popular browsers know the Canvas element except for Microsoft's attempt at a web browser... but even though it does not know how to handle a Canvas element, it has no qualms creating one using Javascript methods. That makes my fall-back content rather useless... Choose, Microsoft, choose! You either know it, or you don't!
Edited to add another eerie thing I found: Opera 10.0 Alpha (yes... Alpha) duplicates the canvas displays. The duplicates are offset by a handful pixels. Sometimes the duplicates move, too, when other stuff is being moved around.
Edited to add an o.O.: the canvas ghosting seems to occur in several versions of Opera. We haven't heard the last of this problem!
This application is now up for public preview. It heavily uses the new Canvas element that will be part of HTML5, and requires the use of Javascript. People using browsers that either have Javascript turned off or do not understand the Canvas element, are out of luck.
One eerie thing I found: all modern popular browsers know the Canvas element except for Microsoft's attempt at a web browser... but even though it does not know how to handle a Canvas element, it has no qualms creating one using Javascript methods. That makes my fall-back content rather useless... Choose, Microsoft, choose! You either know it, or you don't!
Edited to add another eerie thing I found: Opera 10.0 Alpha (yes... Alpha) duplicates the canvas displays. The duplicates are offset by a handful pixels. Sometimes the duplicates move, too, when other stuff is being moved around.
Edited to add an o.O.: the canvas ghosting seems to occur in several versions of Opera. We haven't heard the last of this problem!
WIDGETIZE
Lorenzo Celsi # 16. December 2008, 16:34
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