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		koolala 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: HTML-in-Canvas Can you give an example? If I used this to load HTML into a 3D environment every user could have the same virtual screen size.

turnsout 4 months ago [–]

Every browser renders HTML slightly differently, so you could render some arbitrary HTML into the canvas and then read out the pixels.

koolala 4 months ago | [–]

I see what you mean. Isn't that already what the user agent tells you?

turnsout 4 months ago | | [–]

Oh my sweet summer child. The game of cat and mouse is so much more vicious than that.

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