Lightweight Online Animation Using HTML5

These days, I am thinking about some easier ways to post visualization animations onto the internet. A lot of friends, like Mhairi and Brian, gave me some new ideas of on-line data visualization and 2D animation, which reminds me of a new technique named HTML5 Canvas.
The most wonderful thing of Canvas is that, it allow us to visit the animation, or an interactive system on-line directly, without loading any flash, video or drive, which means it's really fast. There are many great exploration in this technique nowadays, you can see some of them via canvasdemos.
As you may see, this tool supports 2D and 3D animations. One demo, pirates-love-daisies, deeply inspired me.

This small game tells a funny story of the pirates through its game logic. The characters there and the animation are as attractive as we see in Flash games, but you dont have to wait for your browser to download a large flash file. Just like a comment below, I am exited to "see a big future of canvas" (ROAdmin's comment) through this little game.
Unfortunately, HTML5 Canvas is still not very widely supported by browsers, only some new version ones , like IE9, Safari 1.3+, Firefox 1.5+, can run these demos.