The last couple of days have been one of those 'why is this so difficult' moments. I essentially lost more than a day trying to figure out how to get HTML5 canvases to show up in one of our JSF applications. Here is the background on the stack: JBoss AS 7.2.0 JDK 1.7.x Seam (JSF Framework) v2.2.0 Richfaces v3.3.3 Essentially we wanted to introduce a canvas to our page in order to graphical represent a numeric value and where it falls upon its normal range and possible range of values. The page was leveraging a <ui:include> in order to display the results section. It was a common component used among multiple pages and therefore the reason being pulled in via an include. A richfaces commandLink was being used to initiate an AJAX request that would pull back none, one or many results and re-render the display within a JSF panelGroup. Canvas Background: If you look at any of the examples of using HTML5 canvases, you generally will see the definitio