<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 5 Nov 2015, at 16:43, shirish <<a href="mailto:shirish@hamaralinux.org" class="">shirish@hamaralinux.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Hi all,<br class=""><br class="">Why does <a href="http://blogs.hamaralinux.org" class="">blogs.hamaralinux.org</a> need to extract HTML 5 image canvas data?<br class=""></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div class="">From what I know, HTML5 is in-browser animation rendering along with other HTML5 rendering. I guess one of the plugins uses it.:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canvas_element" class="">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canvas_element</a><br class=""></blockquote></blockquote><br class=""></div><div class="">A lot of HTML5 games / interactions etc use it as an alternative to javascript, or alongside it, from what I know.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class="">I had gone today and saw that it needs to extract HTML 5 image canvas data ?<br class=""><br class="">Some links for the same -<br class=""><br class=""><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/meet-the-online-tracking-device-that-is-virtually-impossible-to-block" class="">https://www.propublica.org/article/meet-the-online-tracking-device-that-is-virtually-impossible-to-block</a><br class=""></div></div></blockquote>This is referencing a specific plugin called AddThis which uses a Canvas <i class="">feature</i> called <i class="">Fingerprinting</i> which is different altogether - we don’t use this plugin.</div><div>In that same article there is a tool to check which plugins / sites have it, and none of our plugins do.</div><div><a href="https://securehomes.esat.kuleuven.be/~gacar/sticky/index.html" class="">https://securehomes.esat.kuleuven.be/~gacar/sticky/index.html</a></div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canvas_element" class="">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canvas_element</a><br class=""><br class="">It would be nice if we could do without resorting to using that.<br class=""><br class="">-- <br class="">Regards,<br class="">Shirish Agarwal,<br class="">Community Lead,<br class="">Hamaralinux.org<br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Hamara-devel mailing list<br class="">Hamara-devel@lists.hamaralinux.org<br class="">http://lists.hamaralinux.org/listinfo/hamara-devel<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>