Re: BlobBuilder.append() should take ArrayBufferView in addition to ArrayBuffer from Arun Ranganathan on 2012-04-12 (public-webapps@w3.org from April to June 2012)

From: Arun Ranganathan <aranganathan@mozilla.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 14:48:34 -0700 (PDT)
To: Eric U <ericu@google.com>
Cc: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>, public-webapps@w3.org, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
Message-ID: <1188860934.55765.1334267314315.JavaMail.root@zmmbox4.mail.corp.phx1.mozilla.com>

> On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 12:54 PM, Anne van Kesteren
> <annevk@opera.com> wrote:
> > Eric, the plan is to remove that from File Writer, no?
> 
> Yes.  The next draft I publish will mark it deprecated, and it will
> eventually go away.  However, currently at least Gecko and WebKit
> support BlobBuilder, and WebKit doesn't yet have the Blob
> constructor,
> so it'll be a little while before it actually fades away.
> 
> That being said, we should be talking about making this addition to
> Blob, not to BlobBuilder.

I intend to add ArrayBufferView as a parameter to the Blob constructor .

-- A*

Received on Thursday, 12 April 2012 21:49:03 UTC