[Bug 25658] New: Need normative reference for ArrayBufferView type

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=25658

            Bug ID: 25658
           Summary: Need normative reference for ArrayBufferView type
           Product: Web Cryptography
           Version: unspecified
          Hardware: PC
                OS: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: blocker
          Priority: P2
         Component: Web Cryptography API Document
          Assignee: sleevi@google.com
          Reporter: sleevi@google.com
                CC: public-webcrypto@w3.org

The handling of the various typed arrays has moved from the Kronos
specification ( https://www.khronos.org/registry/typedarray/specs/latest/ )
into being part of ES6 proper (
http://people.mozilla.org/~jorendorff/es6-draft.html )

During the W3C TAG review, it was highlighted that the normative references for
Typed Arrays should be updated to refer to the ES6 specification.

Within ES6, the ArrayBuffer object family still exists. However, the notion of
ArrayBufferView has been subsumed into the pseudo-object %TypedArray%, along
with concrete instances of it (eg: UInt8Array).

The result of this is that it's no longer linguistically possible to refer to
"an ArrayBufferView" within the specification. Instead, the closest
approximation would appear to be

"an object whose Type(object) is Object and which has a [[TypedArrayName]]
internal slot whose value is not undefined"

The interim solution will be to continue to refer to "ArrayBufferView", as if
it were a discrete type. However, this will likely prevent the document from
entering REC track until suitable language and IDL can be found.

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Received on Monday, 12 May 2014 03:55:01 UTC