Node-canvas. Server side HTML5 canvas implementation in node.js

I love this idea, but I'm almost always using canvas with a bunch of click/hover handlers. If I export as a PNG I lose the ability to make things interactive. Is there any way to couple the performance advantages of server-side processing canvas with the interactivity you get through the native implementations?

Cool. Could this replace image manipulation libraries like ImageMagick? You could handle your image manipulation using the canvas api and have node deliver the result.

Wouldn't it be better if Node.js was based on Webkit (not only the V8 engine) so they don't have to reinvent the wheel for every HTML5 spec? Is it to encourage the idea that Javascript doesn't have to be tied to a browser environment? Would it be too complex to maintain?

I don't know how hard it would be but I've been thinking it would be cool to have a WebGL implementation in node. Desktop gl apps using webgl would sorta cool but dunno about real use cases.

Cool, combine this with canvg and render SVG for lame browsers on server. We can render YUI, jQuiery, canvas, SVG (possibly with some adjustments) in node.

Cool. I've been accomplishing the same thing by using Jaxer in my application and it works pretty well. I have a canvas based drawing app on top of a background image and the composite image can be downloaded by the user. I transfer the drawing to the server side, render, composite, and return the output. Works on IE (with excanvas) as well.

The title is a bit misleading. This is an implementation of the canvas 2d API that cairo for everything (the same graphics library that Firefox uses). It's not a pure JS implementation of all of the rasterization logic.

Not HTML5. HTML5 Canvas. Makes a little more sense when you put that back in the title.

This will be really fantastic when it gets freetype support to load ttf fonts.

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