[Bug 16733] New: Drop 'endings'?

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=16733

           Summary: Drop 'endings'?
           Product: WebAppsWG
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: File API
        AssignedTo: arun@mozilla.com
        ReportedBy: simonp@opera.com
         QAContact: public-webapps-bugzilla@w3.org
                CC: public-webapps@w3.org


File API Writer says about BlobBuilder's endings:

[[
Can we do without endings? Any choice other than "native" can be implemented by
the app author, and most file formats don't care about line endings. "Native"
would be handy for sharing certain types of text files with apps outside the
browser [e.g. Makefiles on a system where make is expecting \n will have issues
if they're written with \r\n]. Is it worth it? Can this be worked around if we
don't supply it?
]]

This bug is about the Blob constructor's 'endings'. What's the motivation for
having it? Can we drop it? In BlobBuilder it only applies for DOMString, but
Blob constructor doesn't say whether it applies for only DOMString or all of
DOMString, ArrayBuffer and Blob.

Authors who want to normalize line endings in their DOMStrings on Windows can
do so manually before passing the string to the Blob constructor, by checking
navigator.platform.substr(0, 3) == 'Win' and then a simple replace().

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Received on Friday, 13 April 2012 14:51:00 UTC