Rendering HTML+Javascript server-side

Question

I need to render an HTML page server-side and \"extract\" the raw bytes of a canvas element so I can save it to a PNG. Problem is, the canvas element is created from javascr

Answer 1

Basically you are trying to do things, which are not intended to be done in that way.

You generate HTML + Javascript to enable the browser to draw it. You write C# to enable any kind of server side things.

Generating HTML + Javascript on server to load it into a browser on server to be able to save PNG sounds bad.

Did you think about other approaches like generating the image using server side C# component? Basically, why do you really need to save it on server? Maybe somebody can provide better solution?

Answer 2

See Generating HTML Canvas image data server-side? for a PhantomJs solution (similar to Node.js, but different, single file, no install)

Answer 3

I found Awesomium Does exactly what I need! "Windowless web-browser framework". Brilliant.

Answer 4

You can consider using Watin. Generate your page then use Watin api to capture the generated page.

http://fwdnug.com/blogs/ddodgen/archive/2008/06/19/watin-api-capturewebpagetofile.aspx