The API intergrates pretty tightly with the rest of HTML, for example it refers to HTMLVideoElements, the HTML5 "structured clone" feature is defined in terms of canvas interfaces, and so on.

One of the earliest HTML5 tools to be widely implemented in browsers is the canvas, which provides both a platform-independent way to develop complex graphics and a standard JavaScript API for ...

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