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Bug 15298 - I don't know if this belongs here but I think it would be a nice feature in the new HTML5 to make it possible to save canvas animations to a .gif instead of getting just a single frame like .bmp or .png :)
Summary: I don't know if this belongs here but I think it would be a nice feature in t...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2011-12-21 14:38 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2012-01-28 22:27 UTC (History)
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Description contributor 2011-12-21 14:38:08 UTC 
Specification: http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#top
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#top

Comment:
I don't know if this belongs here but I think it would be a nice feature in
the new HTML5 to make it possible to save canvas animations to a .gif instead
of getting just a single frame like .bmp or .png :)

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Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2012-01-28 22:27:10 UTC 
EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document:
   http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html

Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: You can do this from script. Save out all the frames as PNGs and then merge them together to form the APNG or GIF animation, either on the server-side (where there's tons of tools to make this trivial) or on the client (with some FileWriter magic).