Session
No Flash Required: Interactive Browser Graphics
Gavin Doughtie, Developer, DreamWorks
Track: JavaScript/Ajax
Date: Wednesday, July 26
Time: 5:20pm
- 6:05pm
Location: Portland 255
Now, however, newer versions of all the popular web browsers support at least one method of drawing client-side graphics via JavaScript and the DOM. This session covers the advantages, disadvantages, and availability of each technique. We then show strategies for creating a uniform JavaScript graphics library that works in all browsers, and a hybrid Ajax approach that performs additional graphics processing on the server.
Specific technologies discussed will include the <canvas> tag, Direct Animation and Vector Markup Language (VML) in Internet Explorer, server-side graphics with the GD library, and Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG).