- From: Nikunj R. Mehta <nikunj.mehta@oracle.com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 15:09:13 -0700
- To: "Arve Bersvendsen" <arveb@opera.com>
- Cc: "Jonas Sicking" <jonas@sicking.cc>, "Web Applications Working Group WG" <public-webapps@w3.org>
On Aug 19, 2009, at 3:07 PM, Arve Bersvendsen wrote: > 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*? They are independent proposals. Of course, it is still possible that the next WD combine the two. I wouldn't like that too much, but that's just me. > -- > Arve Bersvendsen > > Opera Software ASA, http://www.opera.com/ > Nikunj http://o-micron.blogspot.com
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