When developers initially created Adobe Flash Player in 1997, it revolutionized the way developers could display their content on the Web. From vector-based animations to audio and video streaming, it seemed there was nothing the coveted Flash Player couldn’t handle...

It’s been a fantastic couple of years for HTML5 games, for both consumers and developers. In fact, HTML5 is turning into a great game development platform, rapidly catching up to the ubiquity of Flash-based browser gaming.

HTML5 comes with some huge advantages that allow users to build apps, accelerated graphics in games, stream HD video...

I’ve been doing a bit of experimenting with the Canvas and Video tags in HTML5 lately, and found some cool features hiding in plain sight. One of those is the Canvas.drawImage() api call. Here is the description on the draft site.

3.10 Images

To draw images onto the canvas, the drawImage method can be used...