- From: Olli Pettay <Olli.Pettay@helsinki.fi>
- Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 16:14:45 +0200
On 03/18/2011 04:02 PM, Lachlan Hunt wrote: >> On Mon, 24 Jan 2011, Anne van Kesteren wrote: >>> >>> There is a plan of allowing direct assigning to IDL attributes besides >>> creating URLs. >>> >>> I.e. being able to do: >>> >>> audio.src = blob >>> >>> (The src content attribute would then be something like >>> "about:objecturl".) >>> >>> I am not sure if that API should work differently from creating URLs and >>> assigning those, but we could consider it. >> >> Could you elaborate on this plan? > > This is basically what Philip and I were discussing in the other thread > yesterday, where we avoid the unnecessary overhead of creating a magic > URL, and instead just assign the object directly to the src property. > This lets the implementation handle all the magic transparently in the > background, without bothering to expose a URLs string to the author. And I was arguing that we could avoid creating the probably somewhat heavy stream object if we could just assign the url, or perhaps some DOMURL object to video/audio.src. -Olli
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