#canvas (11 links)
- CoolClock - The Javascript Analog Clock randomibis.com
- mrdoob/three.js - GitHub github.com
"A lightweight [JavaScript] 3D engine with a very low level of abstraction". Mental.
Cake or death?
- svgweb - Project Hosting on Google Code code.google.com
A JavaScript library which provides SVG support on many browsers, including Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Safari. Using the library plus native SVG support you can instantly target ~95% of the existing installed web base. Once dropped in you get partial support for SVG 1.1, SVG Animation (SMIL), Fonts, Video and Audio, DOM and style scripting through JavaScript, and more in about a 60K library.
- jqPlot - Pure Javascript Plotting jqplot.com
"Computation and drawing of lines, axes, shadows even the grid itself is handled by pluggable "renderers". Not only are the plot elements customizable, plugins can expand functionality of the plot too! There are plenty of hooks into the core jqPlot code allowing for custom event handlers, creation of new plot types, adding canvases to the plot, and more."
- Home - cufon - GitHub wiki.github.com
A possible sIFR alternative. "Fast text replacement with canvas and VML - no Flash or images required."
- typeface.js -- Rendering text with Javascript, <canvas>, and VML typeface.neocracy.org
Instead of creating images or using flash just to show your site's graphic text in the font you want, you can use typeface.js and write in plain HTML and CSS, just as if your visitors had the font installed locally. This is a work in progress, but functional enough.
The world is changing. And changing quickly. The web is going to win, filling the market niche where Flash and other similar technologies found their hold.
This article is a proof of concept for visualizing HTML table data with the canvas element.