Canvas

Introduction

Canvas are now considered to be an usable API in faceless contexts like Workers

4.8.11.1 Proxying canvases to workers

Since DOM nodes cannot be accessed across worker boundaries, a proxy object is needed to enable workers to render to canvas elements in Documents.

-> http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/the-canvas-element.html#proxying-canvases-to-workers

Contacts

We are looking for representatives of this HTML5 API to discuss of potentially needed updates to consider server-side implementations

Debate

• It might be more pertinent to implement the canvas API on the server instead of porting asis APIs of C libraries like GD or ImageMagick

SSJS Implementations

none

References