Re: [XHR2] ArrayBuffer integration

On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 2:42 AM, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:55:33 +0200, Kenneth Russell <kbr@google.com> wrote:
>>
>> Mozilla's experimental name is "mozResponseArrayBuffer", so perhaps to
>> avoid collisions the spec could call it responseArrayBuffer.
>
> While I do not think there would be collision (at least not in ECMAScript,
> which is what we are designing for) naming it responseArrayBuffer is fine
> with me. And also now done that way in the draft. Still need to get a saner
> reference to the ArrayBuffer specification than
> https://cvs.khronos.org/svn/repos/registry/trunk/public/webgl/doc/spec/TypedArray-spec.html
> though. :-)
>
> http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/XMLHttpRequest-2/

Thanks, this is great and very exciting. This motivates implementing
the proposed DataView interface (
https://cvs.khronos.org/svn/repos/registry/trunk/public/webgl/doc/spec/TypedArray-spec.html#6
), which will make it easier to read multi-byte values with specified
endianness out of an ArrayBuffer. For WebKit I've filed
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46541 .

-Ken

> (You can also do send(ArrayBuffer) obviously. I personally think supporting
> this for both BlobBuilder and send() makes sense. That way Blob/File etc.
> work too.)
>
>
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> Anne van Kesteren
> http://annevankesteren.nl/
>

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