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by pjmlp 14 days ago
HTML 5 canvas exists because of the iPhone, originally it was going to use Web apps.
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JimDabell 13 days ago
Apple created <canvas>, but it wasn’t for the iPhone, it was for Mac OS X dashboard widgets. This was a few years before the iPhone existed.
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pjmlp 13 days ago
While I stand corrected, it was nonetheless pushed by Apple.
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