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The implementation is excellent, and could be slightly improved by giving a default name and .png extension to the downloaded file, by passing a value to the "download" property on the anchor. See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLAnchorE...

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In his defence, that attribute has been available in browsers since March 2017 according to your link [1], whereas the most recent commit in the repo for the dithering tool was in March 2016 by the looks of it.

https://github.com/gazs/canvas-atkinson-dither

He’s still active on GitHub though, in other repos. Maybe he will accept a pull request? :)

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLAnchorE...

Oh, I assumed it had been recently built and probably posted today by its author given the news and the lack of a year in the title. I'll open a PR.

edit: I might open a PR. 'CoffeeScript...now there's a name I've not heard in a long time. A long time...'

> CoffeeScript

It was acceptable in the 2010s

It was acceptable at the time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOV5WXISM24

Nor have I said there is anything wrong with it, only that it's been a long time. So reflexively to equate calling something old with calling it bad seems like a young man's game, but it has been some time since I had close experience of being one of those, also.

It’s a reference to the linked song. One of my favorite songs :D

CoffeScript? This is the kind of task where a coding agent should be helpful.

For a tiny PR where 90% of the complexity will most likely be resurrecting an ancient toolchain?

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