Hello all,
We just came up with an idea that we think would be a worthy addition to the
HTML 5 spec. Being new to the contribution process I hope this is the
appropriate venue to vet this idea.
We have been using a script called html2canvas that utilizes the CANVAS tag to
render screen captures of HTML blocks via the toDataURL() method. It does this
by recreating and drawing each element to a CANVAS tag, but it can be very slow
on large pages.
It occurred to us today that it would really be useful to have every element in
the DOM have the method toDataURL() (e.g.
document.getElementById('myDiv').toDataURL() ). This would be a powerful way of
capturing image data of any element from the whole HTML level down to a lone
DIV. This would allow use in things such as animations, graphical annotations,
and various UI effects.
I welcome your thoughts.
Regards,
Brian Ernesto
President
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