Apple was the originator and original implementer of the canvas tag, in support of a feature they added to their Desktop operating system in 2005. Prior their

Apple was the originator and original implementer of the canvas tag, in support of a feature they added to their Desktop operating system in 2005. Prior their implementation, canvas was not a tag that existed, nor supported in any version of HTML at that time, but it was later incorporated into a new version of HTML. Apple was a minor browser developer as well as a minor OS developer and minor system designer at the time.