Bitmaps, gifs, jpegs and so on are common in almost all web pages. With Canvas you now work with bitmaps at the pixel level. It's not difficult, but you need to organize things to make it really easy ...

One of the operations that low-level APIs tend to give you that higher level graphics systems tend to ignore is the bitblt - bit-block operation (pronounced bit-blit). This is essentially a low-level ...