- From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:06:24 -0700
- To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Cc: WebApps WG <public-webapps@w3.org>
On Oct 6, 2008, at 5:52 AM, 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. I will ask the ECMAScript committee what the plans are. I think we could just invent our own ByteArray or BinaryData interface, it would work better integrated into the language, but ImageData as a custom type works ok in practice. Regards, Maciej
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