• Using canvas and multi touch

    I'm excited about the possibilities that touch screens and multi-touch screens will give us. I'm also interested in HTML 5 and making something that will work accross a variety of devices whether they have a touch screen or just a mouse. To play about with both I'm currently making a colouring book app that will work on an iPad, a desktop computer's browser and hopefully any other touch enabled phone browser.

    <Canvas> is a new HTML tag that is part of HTML 5. It acts like a drawing surface that you draw on using JavaScript commands.

    In JavaScript you can catch mouse and touch events. At …