Re: [w3c/FileAPI] Add simpler reading methods to Blob interface. (#117)

annevk commented on this pull request.



> +    1. If a [=file read error=] occured while reading |bytes|, [$ReadableStream/error$]
+       |stream| with a [=failure reason=] and abort these steps.
+    1. [=ReadableStream/Enqueue=] |bytes| into |stream|.
+
+    Issue: We need to specify more concretely what reading from a Blob actually does, and what
+    possible errors can happen.
+
+<h4 id="text-method-algo">
+The text method</h4>
+
+The <dfn method for=Blob>text()</dfn> method returns the contents
+of the blob as a {{USVString}}.
+
+It must act as follows:
+
+1. Let |stream| be the the result of [=getting a stream for a Blob=] for the [=context object=].

I did it because it's a convenience method and everyone should migrate to UTF-8.

It's not clear to me how useful it would be to consider other encodings here if you only look at the MIME type as file systems wouldn't give you that information at that level, presumably.

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