Canvas without HTML5?

Well Canvas is a part of HTML5, but do we need HTML5 to get a canvas like behavior. Well may be not. We could simulate the canvas behavior with DIV tags. A little bit of Javascript help and we are good to go. And it works on Internet Explorer as well (sort of).

In a video embedded below, the presenter shows how this thing is achievable through 1×1 pixel divs aligned in a grid form. And with some functions written in Javascript, you could create (simulate) drawings and animations through changing the background colors of these divs. The funny thing in the demo is that of the three browsers shown Internet Explorer loads the fastest with this method (though calculating the dimensions incorrectly), followed by Firefox and finally Chrome. Well so much for the speed tests.

Watch is all for yourself in the embed below.

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