Monday 9 August 2010

Iphone and HTML5 Canvas

My father-in-law wants a program to mess about with the Mandelbrot set. Ideally this should work in a browser from the iphone. I'm thinking this would be a good little project to try out using the HTML5 canvas element. Any one know how well HTML5 canvas is supported on the iphone Safari browser?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

In my recent experience the HTML 5 canvas element is very well supported on the iPhone Safari browser.

The online book Dive Into HTML 5 has a good chapter on the canvas (http://diveintohtml5.org/canvas.html) and its compatibility tables suggest that the iPhone implementation is basically complete.

If you're looking for other resources, a must-have cheatsheet can be found at http://blog.nihilogic.dk/2009/02/html5-canvas-cheat-sheet.html and some cool examples of what is possible can be found at http://www.canvasdemos.com/ which also includes links to further resources.

Sounds like a fun project!