HTML5 offers a wide variety of advanced functionality over what HTML was originally capable of.  Perhaps the most powerful aspect of HTML5 is the HTML5 canvas.  The canvas element is a drawable region defined in HTML code with height and width attributes. JavaScript code can access the canvas through a full set of drawing functions allowing for dynamically generated graphics.

In this post, you’ll find 20 shockingly cool HTML5 canvas applications that show just a bit of the power of the canvas and demonstrates what you can accomplish with it.