I want to pre-cache next web page into a thumbnail. Is it possible to pre-render a html page (with css) into an image on-the-fly with javascript/jQuery? And how to persist that temporary image on the client?
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I want to pre-cache next web page into a thumbnail. Is it possible to pre-render a html page (with css) into an image on-the-fly with javascript/jQuery? And how to persist that temporary image on the client?
You could do an ajax request requesting an image or a linkt o an image from a script.
This srcipt needs to request the data needed from the website and render it using a rendering mechanism.
The returned information could be a link to the generated image on the server.
Performance could be pretty low depending on the data to be retrieved and rendered.
This question will show you a solution to render a website and produce a pdf.
You could use this approach and convert the pdf into an image usinf ImageMagick (needs to be installed on your server).