Creates a Blob object representing a file containing the image in the canvas, and invokes a callback with a handle to that object.

Documentation

• https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2016/03/canvas-toblob-in-chrome-50
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLCanvasElement/toBlob

Specification

Specification link

Status: Specification being incubated in a Community Group

Status in Chromium

Blink components: Blink

Implementation status: Enabled by default (tracking bug)

Consensus & Standardization

• Firefox: Shipped/Shipping
• Edge: Shipped/Shipping
• Safari: No signal
• Web Developers: Strongly positive

Owner

• xlai@chromium.org

Comments

Developers have been looking forward to this functionality for a long time: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6736023/which-browsers-and-versions-support-the-canvas-toblob-method

Last updated on 2020-11-19