- From: Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>
- Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2010 20:19:24 +0200
- To: "Chris Marrin" <cmarrin@apple.com>
- Cc: whatwg@lists.whatwg.org, "Web Applications Working Group WG" <public-webapps@w3.org>
On Wed, 08 Sep 2010 20:13:19 +0200, Chris Marrin <cmarrin@apple.com> wrote: >>> ArrayBuffer certainly has momentum behind it. It started as a part of >>> the WebGL spec as a way of passing buffers of data of various types >>> (sometimes heterogeneous types) to the WebGL engine. Since then, it >>> has found uses in the Web Audio proposal, the File API and there has >>> been talk in using it as a way to pass data to Web Workers. >> >> Do you mean WebSockets? > > Web Sockets is certainly another candidate, but I meant Web Workers. > There have been informal discussions on using ArrayBuffers as a way to > safely share binary data between threads. I don't believe anything has > been formalized here. Oh, as in posting to a worker with postMessage? Yeah that could be useful. A side-effect of speccing this would be that other stuff that use the structured clone algorithm would also support ArrayBuffer, e.g. localStorage. -- Simon Pieters Opera Software
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