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Modern Art with Safari Canvas Bug

Bugs
Safari now has a <canvas> tag, a proprietary HTML extension that allows Quartz-style drawing from JavaScript. It was created for Dashboard widgets.

If you specify a canvas width ≤ 54 and a height ≤ 71, Safari appears to use an uninitialized pointer to render the canvas, displaying raw memory as bitmaps.

Here's an example. Be sure to reload the page a few times. Personally, I prefer it to the iTunes music visualizer...

Sunday, May 22, 2005
11:48 AM