- From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 15:14:40 -0800
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Jo?o Eiras <joaoe at opera.com> wrote: > >>> This function takes the same arguments as toDataURL(), plus an >>> additional 'name' argument. It produces the same result as >>> toDataURL(), except that it returns the result as a File object rather >>> than as a data-url encoded string. This can then be directly sent >>> using XMLHttpRequest. >> >> I think it would make more sense to have an actual type for binary data >> (for example along the lines of my proposal on public-script-coord and >> es-discuss) and enable getting one from <canvas> and sending via XHR. > > How about just overloading xhr.send() to handle a <canvas> element ? I'm reluctant to overload the meaning of sending an Element object. When a Document is passed to xhr.send() we already serialize that document into markup, it seems likely to me that in the future we'll want to do the same thing for Elements. / Jonas
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