Convert HTML5 Canvas into File to be uploaded?

Question

The standard HTML file upload works as follows:

Answer 1

Currently in spec (very little support as of april '17)

Canvas.toBlob();

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLCanvasElement/toBlob

EDIT :

The link provides a polyfill (which seems to be slower from the wording), which code is roughtly equivalent to the @pixelomo answer, but with the same api as the native toBlob method :

A low performance polyfill based on toDataURL :

if (!HTMLCanvasElement.prototype.toBlob) {
  Object.defineProperty(HTMLCanvasElement.prototype, 'toBlob', {
    value: function (callback, type, quality) {
      var canvas = this;
      setTimeout(function() {

    var binStr = atob( canvas.toDataURL(type, quality).split(',')[1] ),
        len = binStr.length,
        arr = new Uint8Array(len);

    for (var i = 0; i < len; i++ ) {
      arr[i] = binStr.charCodeAt(i);
    }

    callback( new Blob( [arr], {type: type || 'image/png'} ) );

      });
    }
  });
}

To be used this way :

canvas.toBlob(function(blob){...}, 'image/jpeg', 0.95); // JPEG at 95% quality

or

canvas.toBlob(function(blob){...}); // PNG