Re: [FileAPI] Remove readAsBinaryString?

Seems quite reasonable to me. We've got data URL strings for people who need inefficiency (or portable strings).



On Dec 13, 2011, at 4:52 PM, Adrian Bateman <adrianba@microsoft.com> wrote:

> Another topic that came up at TPAC was readAsBinaryString [1]. This method
> predates support for typed arrays in the FileAPI and allows binary data
> to be read and stored in a string. This is an inefficient way to store
> data now that we have ArrayBuffer and we'd like to not support this method.
> 
> At TPAC I proposed that we remove readAsBinaryString from the spec and
> there was some support for this idea. I'd like to propose that we change
> the spec to remove this.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Adrian.
> 
> [1] http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/FileAPI/#readAsBinaryString
> 
> 

Received on Wednesday, 14 December 2011 01:21:44 UTC