TagCanvas 1.8
Published
This is another one of those releases where it doesn't look like much has changed. I've added a new option called "frontSelect" which will disable the selection of tags that are on the far side of the cloud, but that's not the most interesting change.
The other, larger change is the new "txtOpt" option, which is turned on by default. This draws each text tag to its own canvas at the start of the script, then uses this canvas as an image instead of redrawing the text on each frame of the animation. It doesn't work in IE versions up to 8 because Explorer Canvas has trouble with images, but in all the other browsers it causes a real improvement in performance.
You can find the updated files on the TagCanvas page.