Comments on: 3D landscape in HTML5 canvas

By: Flash, King of the Impossible | profeshunl newbie

Flash, King of the Impossible | profeshunl newbie — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:37:35 +0000

[...] as 3D (like Swift 3D, Papervision 3D and Away 3D – compared to examples using Canvas such as this. To be fair, you need to check out WebGL. Looks really sweet so far), advanced audio controls and [...]

By: Seb Lee-Delisle

Seb Lee-Delisle — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 10:15:04 +0000

@Og2t hehe I’ll need to convert it to Javascript first of course!

@Romuald it’s a very young technology and really no replacement for Flash just yet

@dVyper thank you! It definitely needs more optimisation – it’s on my list of things to do

By: dVyper

dVyper — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 10:10:20 +0000

An excellent example (as always)!

If you think FF3.5 performance is bad, you should try the current Opera – it runs twice as slow as FF…

By: Romuald

Romuald — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 09:02:08 +0000

Really nice stuff! What’s stopping me about those technologies, comparing to flash, is cross-browsing issues. I guess it will always be a problem with an app running without a largely distributed run-time.

Maybe a HTML 6 run-time included in future browsers?

You’re right. It is very slow on Firefox, but definitely great on Safari.

By: Og2t

Og2t — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 08:19:15 +0000

Nice one Seb, you can use Mario's optimized Perlin Noise class.