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IE9. Get ready, it’s going to be huge.

HTML5 just got a whole lot meatier. It’s for real, the software giant Microsoft has thrown its weight behind web standards, including HTML5. You’d better hop on board, the train is leaving the station. By the looks of things they may have left some baggage behind.

2010-03-16 / 10:17

2 Comments

By Jeff Schiller
03/18/2010 03:53 AM

“SVG is great but it doesn’t have the same flexibility, media integration and speed.”

Can you clarify how canvas is more flexible and integrates better with media than SVG?

As for speed, I will agree there are many applications to which Canvas is better suited, though of course hardware acceleration of SVG can help give it a boost (as it could Canvas).

I personally hope IE9 will also implement the Canvas API as well as SVG.

By Egor Kloos
03/18/2010 12:28 PM
Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Europe, Earth etc...

Well, manipulating video is an example that highlights the fact that Canvas is pixel driven.
https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Manipulating_video_using_canvas
Don’t see how that would work with SVG.
Also the Bespin project demonstrates how well it can act as a view layer for a web application.

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