It’s final. I fell in love with JavaScript.
I still love Ruby, but she can’t do this:
(Essentially the clock from the Mozilla Canvas tutorial, a little tweaked.)
No GIF, no Flash, no Silverlight, no SVG, no ugly hacks – just HTML and JavaScript. As an added bonus, it doesn’t work in Internet Exploder.
So what is it?
<canvas> is a HTML5 standard element. It renders simple graphics, easy to learn, scriptable with JavaScript, and quite fast. There are even people that do ray tracing with it!
Nihilogic Games has a catalogue of very nice games realized with canvas. My favorite is World of Solitaire – Klondike (Turn One) (edit: this one uses canvas only for the statistic graphs) with the manga style cards :D The interactive blob demo is actually a bit weird, although technically impressive.
Another example – Love Parade!
(May start your CPU fan.)
Code?
Just see the source for this page.