Canvas.js

https://github.com/ysimonson/canvas.js

by m0th87 • 16 years ago

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revorad2• 16 years ago

Are there any examples to look at?

m0th874• 16 years ago

https://github.com/ysimonson/wordman

demo: http://ysimonson.github.com/wordman/

revorad2• 16 years ago

Thanks. Wordman is fantastic.

earnubs• 16 years ago

Why would I use this rather than the actual canvas API?

m0th874• 16 years ago

Because the actual canvas API is more limited in what it can do. Basically this was designed to be a lot like processing, without the special DSL; you write your applications using just javascript/coffeescript.

btmorex• 16 years ago

To be honest, right now, it's a pretty bare bones wrapper around the actual canvas API. Maybe there's more to come? What can it do that you can't currently do with one or two lines of normal JS?

rickharrison• 16 years ago

Actually this is canvas.coffee. I would be much more interested if this was actual Javascript.

benmills• 16 years ago

Yeah I was a little surprised a .js version wasn't included as well. If might be a good idea to reference how people can compile coffeescript for people who want to use this and don't know what coffeescript is.

m0th874• 16 years ago

Yes, I sort of regret calling it canvas.js but it's a bit late now. I will add information on how to compile coffeescript.

volida• 16 years ago

test

trefn• 16 years ago

Has anyone come across a canvas library similar to raphael.js or protoviz? (both svg)

aberkowitz• 16 years ago

Raphael.js and protoviz exist to lower the barrier of entry of SVG to canvas level [0]. The only advantage they have over canvas is interactivity. Certain libraries like impactjs [1] are aiming to fix that.

[0] Just about the entirety of canvas can be contained in a page: http://www.nihilogic.dk/labs/canvas_sheet/HTML5_Canvas_Cheat...

[1] http://impactjs.org/ - used in http://www.phoboslab.org/biolab/

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