RE: Overlap between StreamReader and FileReader

> From: annevankesteren@gmail.com [mailto:annevankesteren@gmail.com]
> On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 6:31 PM, Travis Leithead
> <travis.leithead@microsoft.com> wrote:
> > Since we have Streams implemented to some degree, I'd love to hear
> suggestions to improve it relative to IO. Anne can you summarize the points
> you've made on the other various threads?
> 
> I recommend reading through
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-

> webapps/2013JanMar/thread.html#msg569
> 
> Problems:
> 
> * Too much complexity for being an Blob without synchronous size.
> * The API is bad. The API for File is bad too, but we cannot change it, this
> however is new.
> 
> And I think we really want an IO API that's not about incremental, but can
> actively discard incoming data once it's processed.

Thanks, I'll review the threads and think about this a bit more.

Received on Thursday, 16 May 2013 18:05:14 UTC