Re: [XHR2] Drop ByteArray?

Anne van Kesteren wrote:
> 
> I'm considering dropping ByteArray support. That is, removing support 
> for it from send() and removing responseBody for now. At this point it's 
> not really clear what the future of ByteArray is and it seems nobody is 
> driving that work or implementing this feature from XMLHttpRequest Level 2.
> 
> It would be nice to have access to the raw byte stream, as authors 
> currently use ugly hacks to get to it, but higher level support for byte 
> streams is somewhat of a prerequisite.

Sounds like a good idea. Hopefully the FileUpload spec that Arun is 
working on can define a Blob API that we'll at some point allow sending 
through XHR.

/ Jonas

Received on Monday, 6 October 2008 17:56:40 UTC