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Offscreen canvas

The OffscreenCanvas API provides a canvas that can be drawn to off screen, with no dependencies on the DOM, which can be used to run heavy rendering operations inside a worker context.

Status

Baseline Widely Available (since 2025-09-27)

MDN documentation

Specifications

Browser support (view on caniuse.com)

  • Chrome 69 Released on 2018-09-04
  • Chrome Android 69 Released on 2018-09-04
  • Edge 79 Released on 2020-01-15
  • Firefox 105 Released on 2022-09-20
  • Firefox for Android 105 Released on 2022-09-20
  • Safari 16.4 Released on 2023-03-27
  • Safari on iOS 16.4 Released on 2023-03-27

Usage (according to Chrome Platform Status)

~6.934% of page loads. More data at chromestatus.com.

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