- From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 12:41:06 -0800
- To: Charles Pritchard <chuck@jumis.com>
- Cc: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>, WebApps WG <public-webapps@w3.org>
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 12:13 PM, Charles Pritchard <chuck@jumis.com> wrote: > On Nov 30, 2011, at 11:32 AM, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc> wrote: > >>> Charles asked whether "chunked-text" was really needed (and whether we >>> should have "chunked" which implies ArrayBuffer instead). Nobody got back to >>> him on that. >> >> Any text based format would benefit from chunked-text. While the >> example above uses a binary format, it applies equally to text based >> formats. And given how much we in this group seem to prefer text based >> formats, (HTML, CSS, Javascript, EventSource, JSON) I think we should >> assume that other people at least use them, if not prefer them. > > My thinking was that ArrayBuffer can easily be converted to String by authors. Even with text-based formats, I prefer to fetch data as blob and buffer. Why? / Jonas
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