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Re:Show HN: Scaling PhantomJS With Ghost Town by dsl on Thursday May 29, 2014 @03:01AM (#7815094)
> a system to reliably render images at scale

I'm curious what exactly "render" means in your context? Phantom.js is headless, so it would be futile to be simply rendering GIFs and JPGs within the browser I assume?

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Re:Show HN: Scaling PhantomJS With Ghost Town by martin-adams on Thursday May 29, 2014 @03:44AM (#7815187)
Imagine it like a web page to PNG converter. This doesn't need a desktop/display attached to do that. That's what "render" means in a headless context.
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Re:Show HN: Scaling PhantomJS With Ghost Town by dsl on Thursday May 29, 2014 @04:19AM (#7815277)
Ah. I get it. Brain did not parse "render" as the output side, but rather the input, so I was trying to figure out why they used phantom.js as an elaborate image format converter.
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