Pretty awesome, sounds like a new golden age of web design is coming.

I agree that until the leading (by statistics) web browser, IE, supports the canvas tag, then it is of no real use. It’s a start though that Microsoft is using the Mozilla Firefox RSS icon on request. One step at a time. 

Pretty awesome, sounds like a new golden age of web design is coming.

canvas can do some really immense stuff.

It is true that a graphics program could do the exact same thing but canvas really comes into it’s own with dynamic content. For example, what if you wanted to add a reflection effect to user’s avatars? You could either manually photoshop a reflection or you could use canvas and allow the browser to generate the reflections.

Another great thing about using canvas is that it can integrate with javascript events. If you made reflections in Photoshop you would also find it hard to get it to automatically blend in with the background colour.

This script gives people with up to date browsers some additional eye candy and everyone else won’t notice a thing.