Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by cpr 5572 days ago
That's great--how do you do the snapshotting in pure Javascript? (If that's your secret sauce, fair 'nuff, but any hints would be appreciated.)

Edit: Oh, wait, it's just HTML you're sending--I see. You're not capturing a screenshot.
2 comments
andrewdavey 5572 days ago
Yes, for now it's HTML, which is better than nothing. My plan for the future is to pass the HTML to a server-side browser renderer (using the user agent captured in the snapshot). So then you'll get a JPEG as well.
link
masnick 5572 days ago
Do you know how http://www.snapengage.com/ takes screenshots? I'm not sure if it's HTML or an actual image, but it might be work looking into.
link
cpr 5571 days ago
Interesting. It looks like it depends on Flash to take that screenshot.
link
andrewdavey 5572 days ago
I hadn't see that site before - I'll have a look into it. Thanks!
link