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Client-side processing

Performing computation in the user's browser or device instead of sending data to a server, usually for privacy, cost or latency reasons.

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canvas.toBlob() hands back a PNG when you ask it to encode AVIF

Browsers decode eight image formats and encode three. A dev.to post documents what happens when you ask the canvas API for one of the other five: the success callback fires, and the blob it carries is a PNG.

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