Advanced Web Graphics with Canvas

I hate images. Not pictures or icons, mind you, but user interface graphics. I think that small gradient PNGs that web developers set to repeat are the spacer gifs of today. Images are hard to change, and slower to download.

Canvas is an HTML 5 standard for drawing bitmap graphics. It was created by Apple Inc, for drawing dashboard widgets. Since then all other browsers have added support (it works in IE with a JS library).

This talk covers basic drawing commands and using canvas to draw user interface elements without resorting to image files. An intermediate level of JavaScript is preferred.

About Jason Harwig

Jason Harwig full-time job is a senior software engineer at Near Infinity Corporation, an enterprise software development and consulting services company headquartered in Reston, Virginia. In his spare time he runs Pine Point Software LLC, writing Mac OS X applications in Cocoa/Objective-C.

His interests include Cocoa, JavaScript, OpenGL and user-interface design.

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