Canvas-ing the Web
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Chrome recently shipped a flag-gated HTML-in-canvas API, letting you render styled HTML and CSS inside a canvas element — and then export it as an image. A developer used it to build a one-click banner download button for an internal tool, but hit real snags: recursive connectedCallback stack overflows and canvas sizing mismatches, each requiring creative workarounds involving moveBefore() and dynamic resizing.
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