Bug#845063: ITP: html2canvas -- Take screenshots of webpages directly in the browser
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Ximin Luo <infinity0@debian.org>
* Package name : html2canvas
Version : 0.5.0~beta4
Upstream Author : 2012-2016 Niklas von Hertzen <niklasvh@gmail.com>
* URL : https://github.com/niklasvh/html2canvas
* License : Expat
Programming Lang: JS
Description : Take screenshots of webpages directly in the browser
html2canvas allows you to take "screenshots" of webpages or parts of it,
directly on the users browser. The screenshot is based on the DOM and as such
may not be 100% accurate to the real representation as it does not make an
actual screenshot, but builds the screenshot based on the information
available on the page.
It renders the current page as a canvas image, by reading the DOM and the
different styles applied to the elements.
It does not require any rendering from the server, as the whole image is
created on the clients browser. However, as it is heavily dependent on the
browser, this library is not suitable to be used in nodejs. It doesn't
magically circumvent any browser content policy restrictions either, so
rendering cross-origin content will require a proxy to get the content to the
same origin.
It is still in a very experimental state, so the author doesn't recommend
using it in a production environment nor start building applications with it
yet, as there will be still major changes made.
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