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Games have always had requirements that affect the platforms on which they could be delivered. The platform needs to be delivery requires fast, highly graphical and , interactive, multimedia environment. On a web page, the To accomplish this game delivery of games on a web page , have traditionally required some sort of browser plug-in. However due to security concerns and general wariness about plug-ins, delivering content/games that require a plugin plug-in is a barrier to access for some users. Furthermore, browser plug-ins are not available on browsers for all platforms. Even Flash, which is one of the most ubiquitous visual interactive environments, is not available on for every platformbrowser. The solution for cross browser, cross platform delivery of rich graphics in an interactive environment is to be integrated integrate it into native browser technology.

''[?Placement of this paragraph? DM'']The HTML HTML5 <canvas> element , standardized in ...(find citation) allows the programmatic delivery of graphics in a web page without pluginsplug-ins. With its inclusion in the soon to be released IE 9, the <canvas> element now represents a means to deliver graphical content in all the major browserswithout the use of any plug-ins. The typical way to interact with draw on the canvas is to use JavaScript. However for artists, educators, and other people less familiar with JavaScript, learning to do this can be a barrier to entry.

 The Processing language introduced by Ben Fry and Casey Reas is a simple and elegant language for data visualization that is already used by artists, educators as well as commercial media to deliver rich graphical content called sketches. There is a large body of work around the world which is being developed using Processing. However, Processing was developed in Java and thus delivering Processing sketches on a webpage web page required that the user install a Java plugin. Furthermore the sketches themselves are self contained items as opposed to being part of a web page. That is, the elements of the Document Object Model (DOM) of a webpage can not interact with it or vice versa. Thus, while it is possible to deliver visual content it would be difficult to create Processing sketches to take full advantage of modern web services such as flickr, twitter etc.