Javascript and HTML5 Canvas roundup

A foray into Google on the topic of HTML5 animation yielded (as always) some linkworthy material:

• Basic tunnel animation with moving random spheres.
• From the same site, a really nice set of presentation slides. The language is Volapük, if you're wondering.
• Some of the new HTML5 semantic tags. Wow!
• Alex the Alligator, a platform gamer ported to HTML5, based on the engine melonJS.
• Basic drawing with HTML5 Canvas.

Also there was doodle-js - a port-ish thing of ActionScript into HTML5 Canvas - but it seems to have vanished. Or at least its example pages did; the code is still on Github.

Draw a Stick Man

Very neat HTML Canvas design. [hnn] You could really imagine all kinds of storytelling on a platform like this.

Extended examination of app building in HTML5

One of the Opera devs is porting a C++ game into HTML5 as a kind of exercise. Worth reading.