- From: Charles Pritchard <chuck@jumis.com>
- Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 16:42:32 -0700
On 3/16/2012 4:25 PM, Boris Zbarsky wrote: > On 3/16/12 5:25 PM, Brandon Jones wrote: >> Everyone knows that typed arrays /can/ be Big Endian, but I'm not aware >> of any devices available right now that support WebGL that are. > > I believe that recent Firefox on a SPARC processor would fit that > description. Of course the number of web developers that have a > SPARC-based machine is 0 to a very good approximation.... I've written some hash/encryption methods that could very well could fail on Firefox on SPARC; many things fail on machines I've never tested with. Flip the implementation on SPARC, and it wouldn't harm anything. Cut it out of the spec, so that the behavior is undocumented, implementations break. DataView is a more complex than ArrayBufferView, so implementers started with the easy option. The coders using Float32Array are cowboys; (web app gaming and encryption). We're talking about a few hundred people out of many millions.
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