What is HTML5 Canvas?

Anton Lytvynov
2 min readApr 10, 2021

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The place in the modern Web development

This is the first article from the HTML5 Canvas series. If you want to get all of them you can contact me. I’ll publish them one by one and update from time to time.

Interactivity and attractiveness are always demanding and popular in web development history.

Interactivity and attractiveness are always demanding and popular in web development history. In the past, Flash was meeting these needs.

Flash was the leading technology when we used the web by PC.
Later we got Smartphones. The needs of the internet changed.

Old technologies

Web sites should work properly on mobile, desktop, tablets, and even smart TVs.

Flash, Java, Silverlight were working with plugins and extra software.

Today we should be able to see the dynamic content without any additional plugins to our portables.

Here HTML5 comes.

Html5

It came to solve the portability and dependency troubles. Take a look on all cool APIs you can use with HTML5 here.

One of them is Canvas.

Canvas

Canvas uses JavaScript to manipulate with graphical elements and the board.

The main areas are

  • Complex drawing online applications
  • Highly interactive tools, for example 3D builders
  • Chars and graphs
  • Games
  • and much more
Example of complex online drawing application
Game example

So HTML5 is the easy and modern solution to build amazing and light modern front effects.

Thank you for your attention.

Thank you for your attention.

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Anton Lytvynov

CEO & Founder of Lytvynov Production, Senior web developer, architect, cryptocurrencies trader, https://lytvynov-production.com