EyeOS. Canvas Photo Experiment. Published date: May 31, 2008 Inspiration The Canvas Photo Experiment [Demo | source code] is a UI implementation similar to the UI of the "photo table" of Microsoft Surface. Since in our case the media is the browser it has the following features: freely and easily translate/rotate/resize imagescreate highly customized compositionsimport/export from to different sources and formatsno multitouch! The canvas implementation idea comes due to the limitations found in our previous implementation in SVG showed in the last part of this page Implementation The most important reason though I finally chose canvas is the native browser support and compatibility. Canvas compatibility table for the Canvas Photo Experiment: Implementing this in canvas presents two main challenges: drag & drop and performance.
You can also preview the source code To see it in action, check out the the Demo Previous attempt with SVG There have been previous approaches both in SVG and Silverlight SVG compatibility table: Misc. The Rather Difficult Font Game. HTML Form Template & CSS Design Gallery. Script.aculo.us - web 2.0 javascript.