Re: [FileAPI] Remove readAsBinaryString?

+1 though it won't likely go away from implementations as easily.

On Dec 13, 2011, at 8:22 PM, Charles Pritchard <chuck@jumis.com> wrote:

> Seems quite reasonable to me. We've got data URL strings for people who need inefficiency (or portable strings).
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> On Dec 13, 2011, at 4:52 PM, Adrian Bateman <adrianba@microsoft.com> wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Adrian.
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>> [1] http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/FileAPI/#readAsBinaryString
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Received on Wednesday, 14 December 2011 02:34:15 UTC