RE: Overlap between StreamReader and FileReader

> From: annevankesteren@gmail.com [mailto:annevankesteren@gmail.com]
> 
> On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 5:58 PM, Takeshi Yoshino <tyoshino@google.com>
> wrote:
> > StreamReader proposed in the Streams API spec is almost the same as
> > FileReader. By adding the maxSize argument to the readAs methods (new
> > methods or just add it to existing methods as an optional argument)
> > and adding the readAsBlob method, FileReader can cover all what
> > StreamReader provides. Has this already been discussed here?
> >
> > I heard that some people who had this concern discussed briefly and
> > were worrying about derailing File API standardization.
> >
> > We're planning to implement it on Chromium/Blink shortly.
> 
> The Streams API
> https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/streams-api/raw-file/tip/Overview.htm is no good as
> far as I can tell. We need something else for IO. (See various threads on this
> list by me.)
> 
> Alex will tell you the same so I doubt it'd get through Blink API review.

Since we have Streams implemented to some degree, I'd love to hear suggestions to improve it relative to IO. Anne can you summarize the points you've made on the other various threads?

Received on Thursday, 16 May 2013 17:34:45 UTC