A canvas playground
If you ever wanted to add a feature for drawing in your site, or even possibly, create a web application all around the ability to simply draw, then we're going to explore this functionality.
Some ideas for web applications related to drawing:
Provide a mechanism to digitally sign on everything. With the rise of mobile and tablets adoption, now more than ever, what used to be just a website operated by a mouse and keyboard to navigate, are now getting the stylus and fingertips, dimension which spices up things.
Provide the ability to simply draw. That sounds too ordinary for you? Something that is too easy? Well, the mobile app Draw Something, will disagree, and it has popularity and download statistics, to back it up. Just spice up your web application with some gamification, social networking sharing, and you're probably on your way to forming a cool web application.
After we've established that, there are at least some use cases for using an in-browser drawing capability...