- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 23:59:27 +0000 (UTC)
On Mon, 21 Mar 2011, Simon Heckmann wrote: > > I found this thread > (<http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2011-January/02997 > 3.html>) in the archive of this mailing list, but I could not determine > if any decision was made whether this should be implemented or not. I am > interested in this, because I came up with a scenario which would > benefit from Streaming Blobs: > > I use the File API to locally store larger video files on the users hard > drive. For security purposes I encrypted them with AES and use a > javascript library for local just-in-time decryption. This is not yet a > productive application bur more of a prototype. However, I experienced > javascript manipulation of large data can be quite slow so we do not > want the user to wait until the full video is decrypted/manipulated. > Therefore I would vote for a way to append data to a Blob and the > ObjectURL reflects these modifications. Maybe something like > createStreamableObjectURL could be used for differentiation? > > Just wanted to express my thoughts because I think the whole File API is > a great idea! I recommend forwarding your suggestion to the W3C public-webapps at w3.org mailing list, which is where discussion of the File API specs more usually takes place. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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