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Using the Browser’s `<canvas>` for Data Compression

Quality: 8/10 Relevance: 7/10

Summary

This article presents a browser-side data compression trick that uses a canvas to compress arbitrary data by encoding it into PNG pixel data. It provides working JavaScript functions for compressing and decompressing data, plus a demo and notes on cross-browser caveats. The approach is clever for front-end state encoding and URL-based storage when server-side compression APIs are not available.

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