Canvas Pocket Reference, By David Flanagan, is a short and sweet little book that covers the HTML5 canvas element, made famous by the likes of Mr. Doob's Harmony Sketch tool.
In this book, David Flanagan assumes you are familiar with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and focuses solely on the canvas element and all the things you can do with it. The first chapter is an introduction to all the ways you can draw on a canvas, with code examples accompanying each description. If you need a refresher or haven't really been exposed to the canvas element, this chapter will serve you well. I only learned about the canvas element this previous summer and never really experimented with it. But this chapter was all I needed to feel comfortable using all of the different canvas drawing methods.
The second chapter is just a reference for the canvas element and all of its associated methods. In alphabetical order, it's quite handy if you just need to remember what the parameters for bezierCurveTo() are, or what the name of that function is that closes a path.
At $15 for the ebook+Dead tree version, this is a must-buy for any web developers library. Sure, you can find most of the information on the web, but this is a handy guide that you can keep on your desk or in your laptop bag (or just on your computer). I enjoyed reading this book, and I look forward to using it to help me develop my own canvas apps.
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Learning Canvas itself is vital for doing high-level drawings on web.But you can achieve satisfying results with RaphaelJS library easier and faster.
Also Raphaeljs lib. handles multibrowser support.So it works on ie too :)
http://raphaeljs.com/
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