Brian Grinstead

I have implemented DrawWindow (HTML rendering) functionality in Canvas. It is essentially rendering HTML inside of the canvas tag without modifying the original DOM. This took a lot of trial and error, but it is working pretty well now. The code is online here: https://github.com/bgrins/DrawWindow, and a really minimal project page is here: DrawWindow demo.

I recently found a very good implementation of this same functionality, called html2canvas, that was just released. That implementation includes nice demos and a test console, so it is worth checking out. That version is quite a bit more polished, so when I work on mine more, I will have to check out some of the great work here: https://github.com/niklasvh/html2canvas.

This functionality is necessary for web design type applications that require a colorpicker based on the current DOM, or for feedback type applications that require sending screenshots. Great to see this being built out!