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A question for you guys: What is the best way to learn about and start playing around with HTML 5. And how long would it take to produce something like this?


Look at the source code. ~7000 lines of javascript -> anywhere from a month to a year, depending on how good/fast you are.


I wrote a tutorial that might be useful: http://billmill.org/static/canvastutorial/


I used this tutorial when I was learning about the Canvas a few months ago - thanks very much for making it, it's a fantastic resource!


That's very very nice. The ability to effortlessly tinker with code samples is priceless. As is use of JQuery.


If you're interested in HTML canvas, and want to get started quickly, you should look into processing.js: http://processingjs.org/

Otherwise, this "cheat sheet" helped me the most: http://blog.nihilogic.dk/2009/02/html5-canvas-cheat-sheet.ht...


I tried processing.js (having used both processing and canvas+js) and I must say I would _not yet_ recommend it.

The tools just aren't there yet, I'd rather develop in plain js+canvas for now (for which you can get decent editors, debuggers, profilers, etc.)




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