On: Html2canvas - Webpages Screenshots with JavaScript

[trickjarrett]

This was my initial thought as well, how can this technology be used to implement Google's Send Feedback functionality.

Kevin Rose was right, if someone can build that as a service, they would do quite well.

[websymphony → trickjarrett]

Saw this site few days ago on HN: http://bugmuncher.com/ Seems to be doing same sort of thing, except that the processing is being done on server side rather on client.

[ebzlo → websymphony]

The problem with server side is you're limited to things that are not behind a login.

[MattBearman → ebzlo]

BugMuncher founder/developer here - BugMuncher takes the entire DOM tree from the client and recreates it for the screenshot, so as long as any external CSS/images aren't behind authentication, it works fine on authenticated pages. In fact, most of our users use BugMuncher specifically on auth protected areas.

[coconutrandom → ebzlo]

For urls true. But not if you post the html source from a bookmarklet or a script on the page.