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What's the technology that Gravatar uses for us to resize our images when we upload it?

Is it using the HTML5 Canvas API through JavaScript?

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I'm pretty sure it's just js. Unless they are doing Agile for their front-end and already went through another cycle. I remember looking at it when I was doing Wordpress stuff a couple of years back.

Edit to answer question: No, I don't think you need the canvas element unless they have significantly changed their code-base in the last year.

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is canvas required for that technology? – Pacerier Jul 3 '11 at 3:10
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I would think it's ImageMagick. Gravatar has been around for quite a while.

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i don't get you.. the technology used simply had to be javascript right? i mean I know that It is javascript but I do not know if it is simply javascript or javascript with canvas.. – Pacerier Jul 2 '11 at 16:26

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