HTML5 Canvas Cookbook

Canvas performance on mobile devices

As the mobile and tablet markets continue to eat away at the traditional desktop and laptop markets, it's important to address the role of canvas in the mobile space. At the time of writing, canvas animations perform very poorly on nearly all mobile devices simply because they don't have powerful enough CPUs to handle it. Tablets typically have much better performance. There's good news though. In addition to software improvements and more powerful CPUs, mobile devices and tablets are pushing harder than ever to better leverage hardware acceleration, helping animations to run more smoothly. If you're considering building a graphically intensive web application that makes heavy use of canvas animations, make ...