Re: [FileAPI] Remove readAsBinaryString?

I agree we should remove it from spec!

I think we'd be fine with removing it from the Firefox implementation.

/ Jonas

On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 6:33 PM, Jarred Nicholls <jarred@webkit.org> wrote:
> +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).
>>
>>
>>
>> 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 02:55:23 UTC