News 01 Feb 2010 fxCanvas is released Part of the Drawarea project, Canvas implementation for IE goes into the wild. Follow me... 06 Dec 2009 Project still in active development But it may take some more time to complete... 28 Jun 2009 Public release date is unknown... Public release date is unknown due to no reply from Ilmary (one of base lib developers) and changed plans. But it will be released anyway. I hope in the summer. 28 Jun 2009 One more example :)... One more example :) 22 Jun 2009 Text rendering bug in opera fixed... Simple and complex document layout demo 18 Jun 2009 Some development demo is published... It's known to work best in Firefox 3 and Safari while in IE do not work at all. featured static graphic simple and complex document layouts Inki, web- vector- graphics editor geographical maps

HTML Drawarea

Drawarea is a digital reincarnation of pencil and paper.

DA is developed in JavaScript/ECMAScript, does not require plugins (except Flash on IE) and can be easily embedded into web-page.

State

In active development.

License

MIT license.

Compatibility

DA will work in all modern browsers, including Internet Explorer (6+) with Flash installed.

Some planned features

• canvas is in 2.5d: zoom, scroll and aspect (rotation);
• in- out- SVG support;
• downloadable fonts;
• layers;
• timeline (however I don't promise this in started release);
• etc..

Development demo

• featured static graphic
• document layout
• Inki, drawing board
• geo maps

Dev center and source repo

coming soon (or later)

Related projects

fxCanvas, pyjon, Inkscape, Cufόn

Docs

• Canvas tutorial on dev.mozilla and dev.opera,
• SVG basics,
• SVG on dev.opera,
• full SVG spec

Contact

You can reach developers through email: drawarea ATATATTAT ggggggmail DOTTODODOD moc
IRC: #drawarea at irc.mozzila.org