A little canvas experiment

// get canvas element
var canvas = document.getElementById('canvas');
// get drawing context from canvas element
var ctx = canvas.getContext("2d");
if (!canvas || !canvas.getContext) {
  window.alert("No canvas or context. Your browser sucks!");
  return;
}
var imgd = false;
var width = canvas.width;
var height = canvas.height;
// Try to create image data from scratch
// If that doesn't work, try to load it from the context
// If that fails too, create an array of the same size and pray
if (ctx.createImageData) {
  imgd = ctx.createImageData(width, height);
} else if (ctx.getImageData) {
  imgd = ctx.getImageData(0, 0, width, height);
} else {
  imgd = {
    'width': width,
    'height': height,
    'data': new Array(width * height * 4)
  };
}

function animate() {
  window.requestAnimationFrame(animate);
  // get actual pixel data
  var pix = imgd.data;
  // run display loop function every 100ms
  var i = 0;
  for (var y = 0; y < height; y++) {
    //do some random stuff with pixel data
    var r = Math.random() * 255;
    var g = Math.random() * 255;
    var b = Math.random() * 255;
    var a = 128;
    for (var x = 0; x < width; x++, i += 4) {
      pix[i] = r;
      pix[i + 1] = g;
      pix[i + 2] = b;
      pix[i + 3] = a;
    }
  }
  // write image data to canvas
  ctx.putImageData(imgd, 0, 0);
}
// call animate() for the first time
animate();