- From: Adam Bergkvist <adam.bergkvist@ericsson.com>
- Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 12:02:16 +0100
- To: "Sunyang (Eric)" <eric.sun@huawei.com>
- CC: Jim Barnett <Jim.Barnett@genesyslab.com>, "public-media-capture@w3.org" <public-media-capture@w3.org>
On 2012-11-16 10:20, Sunyang (Eric) wrote: > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Adam Bergkvist [mailto:adam.bergkvist@ericsson.com] >> Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2012 8:32 PM >> To: Jim Barnett >> Cc: public-media-capture@w3.org >> Subject: Re: recording >> [...] >> I liked the old requestData() rather than getData(). If a method is >> prefixed "get" it's tempting to read a return value. >> > > Any difference? getData can return a BLOB object, requestData also do the same thing. getData() can't return a Blob since the operations involved in preparing the return value could be time consuming and block the event loop too long. getData()/requestData() is more a request to fire the "dataavailable" event with new data as soon as possible. That's why I like the requestData() name better. /Adam
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