Twin Cities Code Camp

With the advent of HTML5 modern browsers can create advanced graphics on a web page. The <canvas> and <svg> tags allow the web page to create sophisticated charts and diagrams. These images are more than just pretty pictures. It is possible to allow the user to interact with these images and to have these interactions affect the more traditional elements of the web page such as form, input and control elements. This presentation explores the possibilities and the mechanisms for integrating interactive images into line of business web applications, using the canvas and SVG elements plus a liberal dose of jQuery and JavaScript. The framework for demonstrating these techniques will be ASP.NET MVC but the material can be used in any web server technology.