Let's Call it a Draw(ing Surface)

OT:

The text formatting and layout of that page is just gorgeous.

Here's what I recently did with a <canvas> element. Has 3D and all: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDRhyMLf4E8

Love the bacon on the balance board idea. Nintendo should turn that idea into a hot dog eating contest and get Kobayashi to promote it.

I've been using GWTCanvas which comes with the gwt-incubator library and it works really well. I've seen it work on Chrome, IE7, FF, the Android browser, and the IPhone browser. I haven't played much with text, but arbitrary shapes and transparency works great.

What do I do if you want to use Canvas if JS is enabled but degrade gracefully if it isn't? Use vector graphics? Generate images on the server?...

(I'm specifically not interested in "everyone has JS enabled anyway" responses)

edit: I'm using Firefox 3.0.13 on Ubuntu Linux and the text doesn't render at all in canvas elements... what gives?

Scroll down to the "TEXT" section and note that "FF3.0" has an X under it.

I failed :(

What minimum Firefox version would I need for canvas text support?...

It's working for me on FF3.5.2.

Incidentally, with FF3.5 you can right-click on the canvas and select "View Image". Pure win.