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The canvas HTML5 element

What the beep is this?

Canvas is a new and extremely useful HTML5 element, but at the moment of writing relatively unknown by developers and users.
This element makes it possible to dynamically paint graphics on a webpage.
Unfortunately, the canvas element is currently only supported in Firefox 1.5+, Opera 9+ (beta) and Safari.

Links

Canvas tutorial
IBM developerworks article about canvas
Simple canvas demo
Simple FPS using canvas
More advanced FPS
Painting application
Grafitti handwriting recognition
More canvas examples

Example: clock