On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 7:40 PM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote: > I think the better solution is to have implementations make keeping object > URLs defined be very cheap, so that nobody needs to ever release them. > The problem isn't the cost of the URL mapping, it's the cost of keeping the backing Blob around. If you drag around Google Maps for a long time, and it used object URLs to load its tile images, it'd be very bad if the browser had to keep every tile graphic around for the lifetime of the page. (Being able to splash Blobs to disk makes this less pressing, at least on desktops, but the problem is still there.) -- Glenn Maynard
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