Re: Lazy Blob

On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Glenn Maynard <glenn@zewt.org> wrote:

> Can we please stop saying "lazy blob"?  It's a confused and confusing
> phrase.  Blobs are "lazy" by design.
>
> On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 2:26 PM, Glenn Adams <glenn@skynav.com> wrote:
>
>> So? Why should lazy blob be specific to HTTP specific semantics when an
>> arbitrary URL is not specific to HTTP?
>>
>
> XHR is no more specific to HTTP than it is to XML.  It serves as the
> primary JavaScript API for performing generic network fetches.  WebSockets
> has an entirely different API from blobs, and bringing them up is only
> derailing the thread.
>

The subject line says Lazy Blob, not Lazy Blob and XHR. For the record, I
will object to a LazyBlob solution that is tied solely to XHR, so deal with
it now rather than later.