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12 mentions on Hacker News by 12 people: 1 story, 11 comments · first 2024-11-11 · latest 2026-10-23

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  1. Except it is literally in the proposal https://github.com/WICG/html-in-canvas/#read-back-allowed-re... :D.
    comment by adzm · 2026-10-23 · in The HTML-in-Canvas API origin trial
  2. This blog post isn’t the proposal, but of course the proposal covers that. https://github.com/WICG/html-in-canvas/#read-back-allowed-re...
    comment by rafram · 2026-10-23 · in The HTML-in-Canvas API origin trial
  3. Page doesn't even seem to mention HTML in Canvas? https://html-in-canvas.dev/ https://github.com/WICG/html-in-canvas
    comment by xnx · 2026-08-09 · in You might want to build your WebApp in Canvas instead of HTML
  4. …shipping to users. 1. It's not a standard. It's a scribble on a napkin in a working group's repo: https://github.com/WICG/html-in-canvas Created and edited by people from Google. 2. Chrome continuously ships "standards" like this that they…
    comment by troupo · 2026-05-20 · in HTML-in-Canvas Demos
  5. …in canvas to control styling. Text rendering and accessibility are main focuses for the proposal. https://github.com/WICG/html-in-canvas
    comment by kevlened · 2026-02-16 · in Modern CSS Code Snippets: Stop writing CSS like it's 2015
  6. https://github.com/WICG/html-in-canvas
    comment by spankalee · 2026-01-08 · in GLSL Web CRT Shader
  7. exactly, we need a standard https://github.com/WICG/html-in-canvas :P
    comment by grimgrin · 2025-08-03 · in HTML-in-Canvas
  8. https://github.com/WICG/html-in-canvas/blob/main/security-pr... > TODO: Expand on fingerprinting risks
    comment by mmastrac · 2025-08-02 · in HTML-in-Canvas
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    story by dannyobrien · 2025-08-02 · 116 comments
  10. It won’t help with dark mode, but the canvas-place-element proposal ( https://github.com/WICG/canvas-place-element ) should allow those interactions on canvas-rendered text backed by a text element placed under the canvas.
    comment by wffurr · 2024-12-20 · in Clay – UI Layout Library
  11. …just read it. Oh, dear ... what an awful proposal! My initial thoughts, reacting to the README at https://github.com/WICG/canvas-place-element > There’s a strong need for better text support on Canvas. [...] This includes not only visual…
    comment by rikroots · 2024-11-11 · in Typesetting Engines: A Programmer's Perspective
  12. …it's crazy fast. DOM is very heavy-weight. [1] https://github.com/chearon/dropflow#harfbuzz [2] https://github.com/WICG/canvas-place-element
    comment by chearon · 2024-11-11 · in Typesetting Engines: A Programmer's Perspective