HTML 5 Canvas Experiment Hints At Things To Come

An anonymous reader writes with an interesting and impressive demonstration of modern browsers' HTML 5 capabilities. "From the 9elements blog: 'HTML5 is getting a lot of love lately. With the arrival of Firefox 3.5, Safari 4 and the new 3.0 beta of Google Chrome, browsers support some great new features including canvas and the new audio/video tags. [...] We've created a little experiment which loads 100 tweets related to HTML 5 and displays them using a javascript-based particle engine.' The site warns "(beware: sophisticated browser needed)"; Firefox 3.5 seems to work fine.

I just checked it out with Firefox 3.5.2

[rampant mac]

...And I see a lot of floating dots.

"HTML 5 Canvas Experiment Hints At Things To Come"

Seizures?

Re:Awesome

[moredots]

Regardless of what the answer is to this question, I am wondering if HTML 5 can provide most of the functionality of Javascript without posing as much of a security risk.

Re:I dunno...

[actionbastard]

"Is compiling a bunch of "tweets" really the best use of all the great new HTML5 capabilities?"/em>

It's the only use for it.

Re:How do I mute the audio?

[Anonymous Coward]

For XP and Linux, there's PulseAudio which has the same feature.

When it works, you can control volumes individually. When it doesn't, you don't get sound at all. Either way, no cheesy music.

Re:Works great in Opera 10....

[MichaelSmith]

I stared at this thing much longer than any sane person should have.

Programming is complete. Return to your normal activities. You will receive instructions when required.

Extremely impressive indeed!

[johannesg]

In fact, it looks just like an Amiga demo from 20+ years ago!

Re:Slideshow

[PouletFou]

Runs fine here on my pentium 3 with windows ME and netscape 4.