Using Zigfu (kinect) in canvas element of HTML5 - javascript

I went through the initial tutorial for making a user radar on Zigfu's website. I am having trouble getting this radar to work in the canvas element.
I want to using the drawing methods in canvas, so I don't want it in the container.
Here is my code so far taken directly from the tutorial. Thanks so much for reading!
function loaded() {
var radardiv = document.getElementById('container');
var radar = {
onuserfound: function (user) {
var userdiv = document.createElement('div');
userdiv.className = 'user';
user.radarelement = userdiv;
radardiv.appendChild(user.radarelement);
},
onuserlost: function (user) {
radardiv.removeChild(user.radarelement);
},
ondataupdate: function (zigdata){
for (var userid in zigdata.users){
var user = zigdata.users[userid];
var pos = user.position;
//console.log(pos);
var el = user.radarelement;
var parentElement = el.parentNode;
var zrange = 2000;
var xrange = 700;
var pixelwidth = parentElement.offsetWidth;
var pixelheight = parentElement.offsetHeight;
var heightscale = pixelheight / zrange;
var widthscale = pixelwidth / xrange;
el.style.left = (((pos[0] / xrange) + 0.5) * pixelwidth - (el.offsetWidth / 2)) + "px";
el.style.top = ((pos[2] / zrange) * pixelheight - (el.offsetHeight / 2)) - 150 + "px";
}
}
};
zig.addListener(radar);
}
document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', loaded, false);
<body>
<div id = 'container'></div>
</body>
</html>
<style>
div#container {
width: 800px;
height: 600px;
border: 1px solid black;
overflow: hidden;
}
div.user {
position: relative;
width: 10px;
height: 10px;
background-color: red;
}

It seems you are missing tags around the javascript, as well as some css for the users radar. Also - your 'container' div is missing a >
Try copying the code from the bottom of http://zigfu.com/en/zdk/tutorials/, or - check out http://zigfu.com/en/zdk/recipes/#omercy16 for a cleaner implementation of the users radar.

The radar used in the tutorial makes use of DOM div placement and positioning.
Unfortunately this can't be used inside the canvas element.
There are ways to overlay over the canvas and other workarounds. See: Placing a <div> within a <canvas>
You can also take the data directly from the plugin and draw to the canvas yourself.
Here is a demo using three.js and zigfu to draw the skeleton onto a canvas:
http://blog.kinect.tonkworks.com/post/30569123887/kinect-online-app-javascript-dev-tutorial-1

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Using this sentence, we can make some simple theories as to how the code will work.
Assuming all squares are 50x50 pixels, we can write some checks.
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there is a demo on jsfiddle:
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JAVASCRPT
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