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HTML-in-Canvas

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HTML-in-Canvas introduces APIs for rendering HTML content into Canvas 2D and WebGL, enabling styled text, layouts, and HTML elements to be displayed directly in canvas through methods like drawElement and texElement2D. This improves accessibility, internationalization, and visual quality, allowing developers to create complex layouts for charts, content boxes, and game menus while maintaining accessibility. The feature requires the layoutsubtree attribute on canvas elements and includes hit testing options for interactive elements.

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