Jake Archibald1d ago

Nice to see excitement around the proposed html-in-canvas feature, but remember you can already put canvas behind/atop HTML elements.

The benefits of this new feature are:

➡️ Readbacks (eg sending to a VideoEncoder)
➡️ Showing HTML on non-planar shapes
➡️ Using shaders on HTML

Show threadAndreu Botella 1d ago
@jaffathecake I recently found another benefit: being able to programmatically generate an image from rendered HTML/CSS content.
Show threadJake Archibald
@andreu yes! Fwiw I count that as "readback"
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