[whatwg] API for encoding/decoding ArrayBuffers into text from Joshua Bell on 2012-03-16 (public-whatwg-archive@w3.org from March 2012)

From: Joshua Bell <jsbell@chromium.org>
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 09:21:12 -0700
Message-ID: <CAD649j7cP+3xvzVtaZYkwYPTTQeM5RLFKQrhUbbLSf6d1q2_yg@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 9:19 AM, Joshua Bell <jsbell at chromium.org> wrote:

>
> And just to be clear, the use case is decoding data formats where string
> fields are variable length null terminated.
>

... and the spec should include normative guidance that length-prefixing is
strongly recommended for new data formats.

Received on Friday, 16 March 2012 09:21:12 UTC