12.1 Introduction
Are your seat belts securely fastened? Up till now, the journey’s been fun, but now it gets really fun. In this chapter, you get to experience the excitement and joy that is canvas!
Before HTML5, web programmers used tools such as applets and Flash to draw graphics objects and animate them. Although detailed explanations of applets and Flash are beyond the scope of this book, here’s a brief introduction. Applets are small Java programs that embed inside web pages. Sun Microsystems developed the Java language and the applet programming model. The Oracle Corporation acquired Sun in 2010, so now Oracle is in charge of applets. Flash was a platform for making web pages with audio, video, graphics, and animation. In 2016, Flash’s ...
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