Javascript pen recognition
Julien Couvreur have written a very nice javascript that allow pen recognition based on his previous C# implementation and using firefox for the new canvas element in Firefox 1.5.
The canvas is one of the many new features in Firefox 1.5. Its a screen area that can be painted programmatically. Apple first introduced it in Safari and the recent Firefox 1.5 (currently in beta) implements it as specified (Web Applications 1.0 spec from the WHATWG group)
Julien notes some limitation such CPU usage, and the alphavet supported in this current version. I think this also because firefox 1.5 is still in beta, maybe it could be improved in the next versions. I liked also the further ideas of SVG, game design with Javascript and canvas-based graphical interpreter. I have already downgrade to firefox 1.0.7 due to some bugs, but I have upgraded again just to test this one. Chapeau !
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