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An improved API for the HTML CANVAS tag

An improved API for the HTML tag

IE doesn't support getters and setters, so Canto does not currently work in that browser

Data visualization in HTML has long been tricky to achieve. Past solutions have involved non-standard plugins, proprietary behavior, and static images. But this has changed with the recent growth in support for the new HTML Canvas element, which provides a native drawing API that can be addressed with simple Javascript. This article is a proof of concept for visualizing HTML table data with the canvas element.