On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Florian Bösch <pyalot@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 8:39 PM, Glenn Adams <glenn@skynav.com> wrote:
>
>> I'll leave the translation of "IM protocol" to "user facing use case" as
>> homework for the reader. It is trivial. My intent is to show a use case
>> where one would use a persistent connection and a series of send/response
>> messages that easily maps to WS. Instant Messaging is such a use case.
>>
> What is it exactly that requires you to use a remote blob with type blob
> in the browser over a WS you cannot achieve with a WS and array buffers?
>
The same reason that a remote blob would be useful with XHR.