Learning HTML Canvas

- [Joe] The Web has had the ability to work with different types of rich media for many years now. Images, video, animations, audio, you name it, and there was a way to put it into a web page. It wasn't until HTML5 came along, however, that one glaring omission among those native media types was finally addressed: the ability to draw arbitrary graphics on the fly using code. The Canvas element lets you do just that. Using standard JavaScript, you can draw whatever you want in both 2D and 3D graphics. Charts, games, animations, it's all available natively in the browser without having to use any plugins.

This course will show you how to take advantage of these capabilities to create rich and immersive experiences in your web applications. You'll see how to use the basic drawing commands to create simple shapes and paths, and then move on to more complex subjects like transformations, patterns and gradients, and even how to create animations. Hi, I'm Joe Marini, and I've been building software for the Web ever since the Web got started. The Canvas element unlocks a lot of potential for building great web apps, so come join me in my course as we learn all about HTML Canvas.