SXSW: Is Canvas the End of Flash?

https://bespin.mozillalabs.com/

http://code.google.com/p/flot/

progressive enhancement from tables to pie charts.

Haase: The canvas api is good, but there aren't any tools for it.

http://code.google.com/p/explorercanvas/

http://code.google.com/chrome/chromeframe/

http://asalant.github.com/snowballs/

http://9elements.com/io/projects/html5/canvas/

It was interesting to see a few people that I've been listening to on podcasts for a few years. Admittedly it's been a while since I've heard Ben Galbraith's voice, but he looks and acts just as you'd expect. He's an evangelist for sure.

The takeaway is that canvas cool, but lacks the browser support to be a mainstream tool for traditional browser development. I also noticed that the cpu usage on my MBP goes way high when I fire up the canvas demos in FF3.6.

http://my.sxsw.com/events/event/561

#canvasendflash