fuzzmonkey · March 12, 2015 16:42
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 I have a site (it's a rails app) that pulls some data from a variety of sources. It's pretty slow to generate and the customer wanted to deploy it in a windows environment so...The rails app is exported as a static site (it doesn't change very often) using wget -m (mirror). 

 - It needs to work in IE8 and the excanvas doesn't seem to support fillText (?)
 - They have also some users that download the data images directly (e.g somesite.com/race/1/thingincanvas.jpg) for use on other systems

 I figured the easiest way to solve all the problems was to generate the images from canvas and embed those instead of the canvas. As i'd have the image files, i could then easily support the second requirement.

 The whole thing is a bit bonkers but customers.
	I have a site (it's a rails app) that pulls some data from a variety of sources. It's pretty slow to generate and the customer wanted to deploy it in a windows environment so...The rails app is exported as a static site (it doesn't change very often) using wget -m (mirror).

	- It needs to work in IE8 and the excanvas doesn't seem to support fillText (?)
	- They have also some users that download the data images directly (e.g somesite.com/race/1/thingincanvas.jpg) for use on other systems

	I figured the easiest way to solve all the problems was to generate the images from canvas and embed those instead of the canvas. As i'd have the image files, i could then easily support the second requirement.

	The whole thing is a bit bonkers but customers.