Re: WebSocket question

Yeah, that makes sense, glad it's being considered. I'm sure you guys are
way ahead of me in thought on this, but one way to integrate binary into
ECMAScript would be through a pseudo protocol of sorts- something like
cache://. The idea would be you could store binary content locally, and use
it in the DOM as you'd do any other remote binary content. You could also
trigger a browser redirect to this URL to download the content as a file.



On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote:

> On Fri, 5 Jun 2009, Ben Dodson wrote:
> >
> > I was wondering if binary data would somehow be supported in the
> > upcoming websockets?
>
> The protocol has been written to support it, but it will probably not be
> supported in the first version of the API, since, as Anne mentions, there
> isn't solid support for it in the underlying platform yet.
>
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