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One of the exciting new features of HTML5 is the Canvas element. Today evening I checked out two libraries implementing the Canvas element for the Google Web Toolkit.

• GWT-Canvas by Oliver Zoran
• GWTCanvas as part of the GWT Incubator

I can’t really tell which library is better. Both seem to handle the Canvas API well. The biggest disadvantage at the moment is that you can’t run your code in hosted mode. The Incubator version promises that hosted mode works on Mac systems though. Users of other operating system will probably have to wait for OOPHM (Out Of Process Hosted Mode) which will be released along with GWT 2.0.
In my opinion one argument speaking for using the Incubator version is that this version is maintained directly by Google and that you get a lot more cool features by including the Incubator JAR.