Re: Proposal to add a method to Blob to compare them byte-by-byte from Anne van Kesteren on 2014-09-05 (public-webapps@w3.org from July to September 2014)

From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2014 09:58:36 +0200
To: Douglas Sherk <dsherk@mozilla.com>
Cc: WebApps WG <public-webapps@w3.org>
Message-ID: <CADnb78hNyfXOHWS9xUHF74_WRraZsRh6wsoiNS-GVRYF3YHXVg@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 9:58 PM, Douglas  Sherk <dsherk@mozilla.com> wrote:
> A use case I can see for this is setting webapp wallpapers and wanting to see if an image that a user uploaded is the same as one already in a gallery, but without having to query a server or store them as anything other than blobs.

If it's a big gallery, you'd still have to query the server, no?

Also, if you are comparing images, it seems you want to use something
more sophisticated than byte comparison.


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