How to flip images horizontally with HTML5

Question

In IE, I can use:

to implement an image flip horizontally.

Answer 1

canvas = document.createElement('canvas');
canvasContext = canvas.getContext('2d');

canvasContext.translate(width, 0);
canvasContext.scale(-1, 1);
this.canvasContext.drawImage(image, 0, 0);

Here's a snippet from a sprite object being used for testing and it produces the results you seem to expect.

Here's another site with more details. http://andrew.hedges.name/widgets/dev/