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		jcr on Feb 11, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Using HTML5/Canvas/Javascript to take screenshots If you haven't seen it yet, the "Shooter" addon for firefox basically does this same sort of thing (screenshot of page by using the canvas). https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/shooter/ The only real bug I've seen in it is the use of white as the default background color in pages, with all page styles (and css files) loaded on top... This means it's (properly?) ignoring the user defined page background color.

ck2 on Feb 11, 2012 [–]

Code that runs with access to the chrome can "cheat" and just use

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Drawing_Graphics_with_Canva...

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