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		wlesieutre on Aug 10, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Elementary OS 6 Odin Fun fact: Apple made up the <canvas> tag for Dashboard and it was later adopted as a web standard

sleepy_keita on Aug 11, 2021 [–]

I remember trying to make Dashboard widgets and got really hung up on trying to wrap my head around the canvas API. I didn't know that's where the current API is based off of though, very cool. :)

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