- From: Arve Bersvendsen <arveb@opera.com>
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:07:43 +0200
- To: "Jonas Sicking" <jonas@sicking.cc>, "Nikunj R. Mehta" <nikunj.mehta@oracle.com>
- Cc: "Web Applications Working Group WG" <public-webapps@w3.org>
On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:21:54 +0200, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc> wrote: > I do like the idea of having a stream primitive. I think we'll need > that for other things in the future such as reading data from a > camera, or reading data from a microphone. I quite concur, and for the widget space, actually writing data is a real use-case. > However I'm not convinced that we should force people to use streams > to deal with the simple use case of reading data from a file. In 95% > (if not more) of the cases the user simply wants to get the contents > of the file, and so forcing them to do that using: Does the presence of an IOStream primitive exclude getAs*? -- Arve Bersvendsen Opera Software ASA, http://www.opera.com/
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