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HTML in Canvas API is NUTS

Wes Bos

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1,190,810 views • 5 months ago •via X (Twitter)

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Wes Bos5 months ago

A bit more explanation. Working on some more demos to show soon

Savannah5 months ago

Yes

Wes Bos5 months ago

Explain plz

Savannah5 months ago

It's very long winded 😅

Bytenaija 🇳🇬🇨🇦5 months ago

@wesbos Does this use the html in canvas API? How is it relevant here?

Savannah5 months ago

@wesbos Yep

Thomas Nattestad5 months ago

(Chrome's PM for the API here) If you have any feedback on the API don't hesitate to share it!

Wes Bos5 months ago

@Paul_Kinlan Thanks, will do!

Peter Pistorius5 months ago

the web is about to get weird again!

Kamalveer Singh5 months ago

I was just thinking about making a shooting game thing and this post popped up on my feed. This is amazing.

Hacksore5 months ago

Basically how Google Docs works 😂

Linus5 months ago

I did this a few weeks back

Youssef 🚜5 months ago

didnt you find out about this like 2 days ago

Wes Bos5 months ago

yep, been cranking on demos. A few more coming

Youssef 🚜5 months ago

keep em coming mate!

Mathew Chan5 months ago

but can you center a div in there

Nick Taylor5 months ago

@1Marc You know you gotta do the Kool Aid man busting through a wall lol

techno yoda5 months ago

the most underrated feature of claude is that I can one-shot canvas visualizations to just to explain things to people. its surreal how well you can express yourself now if you know what you want to see.

François Best5 months ago

cc @orcdev 👀

Chrome for Developers4 months ago

Now this demo is right on target. Love it.

Wes Bos4 months ago

dad

Nick e/code5 months ago

It’s almost like we are rebuilding Flash.

Michael?5 months ago

Next level bad UX is here

Pritam5 months ago

wait till people discover webgl

Wes Bos5 months ago

This works with webgl!

Guillermo Avalos5 months ago

We’re getting Geocities-style sites back, but on cocaine, baby!

Martin Elitzer5 months ago

wtf. dead nuts!

İlhan Neğiş 🛠️💾5 months ago

ooOOo graphing/chart libraries!

Lucas Nascimento5 months ago

that's so cool 🤩

Tone5 months ago

Your tutorials were instrumental in giving me my start and I feel so bad I've forgotten to look back in! This is so dope!!

Chan5 months ago

This is one of those demos that rewires your idea of what belongs in a browser

Eugene Kirichuk5 months ago

We are so back to Flash-like UIs

NéstorVC5 months ago

Is this mobile friendly?

ScrambleYourJets5 months ago

Webgl doesn’t exist?

Wes Bos5 months ago

Show me putting DOM into WebGL. Also - you can use this with WebGL

shane5 months ago

Looking forward to seeing some more demos!

Loktar 🇺🇸5 months ago

SUCH a huge leap for canvas, I'm going to have to dust off some of my old demos tonight and implement some of this 😂

C4B4D4 💿5 months ago

What about CORS?

Franklin Williams4 months ago

The Canvas Inner HTML API is pretty useful for creating UI and UX Designs.

Michael Francis5 months ago

This would be fantastic for game dev.

Damien Golding5 months ago

Wait DOM nodes are in the canvas? I thought it was just about rendering HTML to canvas...

Anton5 months ago

Omg why 😄 this reminds me of Lineage 2 that uses HTML for menus

victor5 months ago

how?? show me.

ouzz5 months ago

I implemented the same logic and rendered the HTML to the canvas. The entire website is rendered using Canvas with no DOM elements

Bob5 months ago

The children yearn for Adobe Flash

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