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Was Chrome AngryBirds game made using html5 canvas? And if yes: what kind of engine did they use?

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Yes. ForPlay.

WebGL and Canvas 2D code paths exist for maximum performance and platform support respectively. The ForPlay GWT library helps with the abstraction. See the Google IO presentation Kick-Ass Game Programming with Google Web Toolkit for details.

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thank you!!!:) – Edward83 May 19 '11 at 8:02
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I just watched the presentation and I think I would like to try out ForPlay in a later project. Seems like a really nice approach. Thanks for the link anyway! – Anders Hansson May 19 '11 at 12:31
AFAIK ForPlay aka PlayN does not let you write in "HTML5" ... the sourcebase is in Java, and it compiles into other formats. Read: You're not actually writing in HTML5; machine translates your Java to HTML5.. – ina Nov 16 '12 at 10:15
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It is based on WebGL (which means canvas is used, but not the standard canvas environment). As iOS uses OpenGL I think they ported that to javascript.

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I made some test html5test.com and it said that I have no WebGL context;) – Edward83 May 18 '11 at 18:47
And my WebGL debugger popped up so it can also use WebGL, so uh, what Vincent said. – Kevin van der Velden May 19 '11 at 10:19
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Inspecting the page element gives me <canvas width="1024" height="768"></canvas> so I guess that means it is canvas.

As for the engine, I assume they ported their iOS one.

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