The HTML-in-Canvas API origin trial

(May 2026.)

Related bunch of comments from that time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48201222

I would use it to render HTML elements such as inputs or a website in videos. Even though HTML is powerful the control over every pixel is important for high quality videos.

Wouldn't it make more logical sense to add canvas to html elements? I.e. checkbox.getContext("2d").fillRect(...)

Back in the WebVR days the sentiment was we can never do this because security.

In my experience with standards bodies/Chrome, anything outside of the owning company's product goals is "no, because security", and then then they flip-flop on that when the browser feature becomes a dependency for something an internal team is working on (which happened many times with WebVR, now WebXR).

So I'm curious what is Google working on that has this as a dependency, now that they've 180'd on it?

Yo dog, we put a DOM in your Canvas in your DOM.