Firefox 1.5 offers a number of exciting new features for developers and users, including Canvas for scriptable bitmap graphics and SVG, a standards based alternative to Flash for vector graphics and animation.

This page collects screenshots and descriptions of a number of Canvas and SVG demos and applications from around the web.

Canvas Extensions
TabPreview: preview of tab contents when you hover over a tab
foXpose : Like Apple’s Expose for tabs; display and select between thumbnails of all currently open tabs.
Demos
Slideshow with fading transitions
Moving colors and circles
Geometric Pattern
Color Cycling Mandelbrot
Animated Flower
Canvascape - 3D walker: a first person shooter built entirely in Javascript + Canvas
Croczilla SVG Samples: a number of SVG graphic examples
Can you put the moon into orbit?: Interactive SVG simulation
Canvas Painter: painting application
Canvas Adventure: side scrolling demo
Closeline: A two player game built on Canvas in the style of the old “Tron” game
Triangle Color Selector: a Gimp-like color chooser
Developer Tools and Documentation
CanvasGraph: A simple javascript library that allows you to conveniently plot simple line, bar and pie charts using the Canvas Tag.
Canvas Tutorial: drawing, transformations, compositing, and animations
Canvas shell: interactive scripting shell for interacting with canvas

If you don’t have Firefox 1.5 yet, give it a try; the installation is free and painless.