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Canvas

Category

Graphics

Type

New or changed feature

Status

Enabled by default (Chrome 1)

Intent stage

None

Summary

Provides an API to draw 2D graphics

Standards & signals

• Specification: http://whatwg.org/html#2dcontext
• Firefox: Shipped/Shipping
• Safari: Shipped/Shipping
• Web developers: Strongly positive
• Tracking bug: http://crbug.com/281529

Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Canvas_API/Tutorial

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