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Saturday, November 26, 2005

Firefox Canvas based First Person Shooter!

I just spotted this over on digg.com so I thought I would try it out. It works great.



Canvas is a new tag that is being supported by Mozilla, Safari,and Opera (plus emulators in Flash) to draw bitmaps via javascript. This site is a First Person Shooter game that uses the canvas tag. It's quite cool that you can do this sort of thing even with the small amount of drawing functions canvas provides.

People will probably want to start getting on the ball with updating their browsers to use the new version. To use the new generation of browsing things, you either need to be using the latest version of Mac OS X - or, if you use MS-Windows, Firefox 1.5 (currently RC 3 but the final version is expected out around November 29).



This is just a taste of what will no doubt be coming down the pike in 2006. Once more technical folks grasp how to use CANVAS element of HTML/XHTML, there will be no stopping them. Finally, they can start making fancy-looking, interactive applications without all the bookmarking problems that Flash presents.



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posted by John Collins | 3:13 PM

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