Re: [XHR] chunked

On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 6:16 PM, Charles Pritchard <chuck@jumis.com> wrote:
> On 11/30/11 6:04 PM, Glenn Maynard wrote:
>
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 8:45 PM, Charles Pritchard <chuck@jumis.com> wrote:
>>
>> I don't worry about character sets at all. I treat the content as opaque.
>
>
> It doesn't sound like you're describing text processing at all, but binary
> processing of data that happens to contain text.
>
>
> Right, for chunked encoding, I start by treating it as binary data, and go
> from there.
> So, I'm not a good source for the usefulness of chunked-text.
>
> When I want text, I convert, but my default is more often to work with
> buffers.
>
> I think Jonas made a good point about multibyte boundaries in text. That's
> not something that can be solved by a simple method:
> str = UintToString(IntArrayBufferChunk);
>
> But it can be solved simply by delegating it to XHR and a chunked-type
> response.
>
> My only requirement is for chunked-arraybuffer, but I didn't mean to stand
> in the way of a chunked-text type.

The part of the original email that you responded to was specifically
talking about weather we should have chunked-text *as well as*
chunked-arraybuffer. So it seems like this sub-thread was off-topic to
that question.

/ Jonas

Received on Thursday, 1 December 2011 02:22:12 UTC