Any way to have Google see HTML5 canvas as an image for Image Search?
BeachWalker
1:34 am on Jul 10, 2010 (gmt 0)
The canvas is drawn on by javascript after the page loads, so is created in the browser. Is there any way to have googlebot see it as an image other than using toDataURL() to create and save the image on the server?
tedster
3:23 am on Jul 10, 2010 (gmt 0)
None that I know of right now - though maybe in the future. Somehow, my gut feeling is that Google would handle SVG long before they handle canvas elements.
Image search is currently confined to a few file types - jpg, png, gif and bmp. While the HTML5 canvas element does draw a bitmap image, as far as I know there is no .bmp file involved.
