HTML5 Canvas Performance: Loading Images vs Drawing

Question

I\'m planning on writing a game using javascript / canvas and I just had 1 question: What kind of performance considerations should I think about in regards to loading images vs

Answer 1

The landscape is changing with each browser release. I suggest following the HTML5 Games initiative that Facebook has started, and the jsGameBench test suite. They cover a wide range of approaches from Canvas to DOM to CSS transforms, and their performance pros and cons.

http://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/454

http://developers.facebook.com/blog/archive

https://github.com/facebook/jsgamebench