Extracting single frames from an animated GIF to canvas

Question

I need to load all the frames of an animated GIF to an HTML5 canvas.

Please note, I don't want to "play" the animated (someone asked this before), all I want is to extract all the frames to use them as single images.

Answer 1

Take a look at jsgif; it downloads a GIF, parses it, and draws the individual frames of the file to a <canvas>. With a bit of digging you should be able to find the code that draws the individual frames and work from there.