Getting started with canvas (HTML5)

Question

I want to do some user interaction animations with HTML5 canvas, but I don't know where to start. Are there some articles or lecture about canvas?

Edit: not just online lecture, I'm also interested in physical books.

Answer 1

See the canvas tutorial here.

Answer 2

Html5 is not out yet so there I would not expect a book (see: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2291773/what-is-a-good-html5-book)

I think you'll end up with articles like this from Google:

• http://carsonified.com/blog/dev/html-5-dev/how-to-draw-with-html-5-canvas/

• http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/html-5-canvas-the-basics/

• https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Canvas_tutorial

• http://diveintohtml5.org/canvas.html

• http://www.canvasdemos.com/

Answer 3

Our Pro HTML5 Programming book just launched in the Apress Alpha program (early release) and has a good chapter about HTML5 Canvas: http://apress.com/book/view/1430227907