- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 19:19:13 -0400
On 3/16/12 5:44 PM, Charles Pritchard wrote: > The DataView set of methods already does this work. The raw arrays are > supposed to have platform endianness. I haven't seen anyone actually using the DataView stuff in practice, or presenting it to developers much... > If you see some evangelists skipping the endian check, send them an > e-mail and let them know. I've done that... then I stopped because it just wasn't worth the effort. Every single WebGL demo I've seen recently was doing this. People were being told that typed arrays are a good way to load binary (integer and float) data from servers using the arraybuffer facilities of XHR at SXSW last week, with no mention of endianness. I think that trying to get web developers to do this right is a lost cause, esp. because none of them (to a good approximation) have any big-endian systems to test on. -Boris
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