- From: Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>
- Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 08:57:30 +0200
- To: "Anne van Kesteren" <annevk@opera.com>, "Eric U" <ericu@google.com>
- Cc: "Boris Zbarsky" <bzbarsky@mit.edu>, public-webapps@w3.org
On Thu, 12 Apr 2012 22:11:38 +0200, Eric U <ericu@google.com> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 12:54 PM, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com> > wrote: >> On Thu, 12 Apr 2012 21:48:12 +0200, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> >> wrote: >>> >>> Because it's still in the current editor's draft and it's still in the >>> Gecko code and I was just reviewing a patch to it and saw the API? ;) >> >> >> 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. Please just remove it from the spec directly. If implementors feel they want to keep it around for a while longer, that's up to them, but the spec should describe the end goal. As for implementations, it's usually simpler to remove features earlier than to wait a while and hope it will be possible to remove it later. The longer a feature is exposed on the Web, the more content will end up relying on it. > 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 thought we discussed long ago it should be removed in favor of a >>>> constructable(sp?) Blob? >>> >>> >>> Could be. Like I said, it's still in the editor's draft. >> >> >> Blob with constructor is in http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/FileAPI/ >> >> >> >>>> Also, should it not accept just ArrayBufferView then as per >>>> XMLHttpRequest? >>> >>> >>> Is there existing content depending on BlobBuilder and its >>> ArrayBufferView >>> stuff? >> >> >> I thought the idea was to not have BlobBuilder at all. >> >> >> >> -- >> Anne van Kesteren >> http://annevankesteren.nl/ -- Simon Pieters Opera Software
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