Most browser implementors are quick to adopt emerging Internet technologies, but Microsoft can't or won't make Internet Explorer a modern web browser. Despite some positive steps in the right ...

Mozilla engineers have borrowed yet another feature from the Tor Browser and starting with version 58 Firefox will block attempts to fingerprint users using the HTML5 canvas element. Canvas blocking ...

We've looked at some tips and tricks for working with canvas in the past. At Mozilla's recent Open Web Gaming conference, Ernesto Jiménez, lead developer at gaming company Six to Start, outlined some ...

A major feature of HTML5 that allows graphics and animations to be rendered within a Web page (HTML page) on the fly. Originally developed by Apple for its Safari browser and used in Firefox, Opera ...

While Cookies and other means have been used to track online users for quite a time now. A new tracking mechanism was developed. This mechanism uses the HTML 5 Canvas Element to track visitors, and it ...

Archaic methods of tracking users via cache and cookies mechanisms are always there. But of late, there has been a new invasive method for tracking users across the Internet – Canvas fingerprinting.

"The Canvas tag is a revolutionary advance in what we can do with web browsers," says author David Flanagan. "I really do think that the client-side graphics enabled by the Canvas tag has the ...