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boundlessdreamz on April 4, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Show HN: jsgif: A GIF player in JavaScript

Wouldn't you be able to create an image tag dynamically and then use that? I'm not sure if you can get a callback when the image is loaded though.

user24 on April 4, 2011 [–]

No; calling getImageData on an image tag with an external src will fail with a cross domain warning :(

You can set up an onload handler on an image though, yeah.

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