Game Development Reference
In-Depth Information
API
Definition
Canvas API
It renders 2D or 3D graphics
Web Audio API
It controls playback of audio files
Web Video API
It controls playback of video files
Geolocation API It provides access to geographical location of hosting device
Web Socket API It provides a protocol for two way communication with a remote
server
Web Workers API It provides a thread-like, background worker for concurrent ex-
ecution
Messaging API
It provides mechanism for communication between different
browser contexts
Web Storage API It provides a key-value pair persistence mechanism
Indexed Database
API
It provides a NoSQL object storage mechanism
