On Thu, 12 Apr 2012 22:11:38 +0200, Eric U <er...@google.com> wrote:
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 12:54 PM, Anne van Kesteren <ann...@opera.com>
wrote:
On Thu, 12 Apr 2012 21:48:12 +0200, Boris Zbarsky <bzbar...@mit.edu>
wrote:
Because it's still in the current editor's draft and it's still in the
Gecko code and I was just reviewing a patch to it and saw the API? ;)
Eric, the plan is to remove that from File Writer, no?
Yes. The next draft I publish will mark it deprecated, and it will
eventually go away.
Please just remove it from the spec directly. If implementors feel they
want to keep it around for a while longer, that's up to them, but the spec
should describe the end goal.
As for implementations, it's usually simpler to remove features earlier
than to wait a while and hope it will be possible to remove it later. The
longer a feature is exposed on the Web, the more content will end up
relying on it.
However, currently at least Gecko and WebKit
support BlobBuilder, and WebKit doesn't yet have the Blob constructor,
so it'll be a little while before it actually fades away.
That being said, we should be talking about making this addition to
Blob, not to BlobBuilder.
I thought we discussed long ago it should be removed in favor of a
constructable(sp?) Blob?
Could be. Like I said, it's still in the editor's draft.
Blob with constructor is in http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/FileAPI/
Also, should it not accept just ArrayBufferView then as per
XMLHttpRequest?
Is there existing content depending on BlobBuilder and its
ArrayBufferView
stuff?
I thought the idea was to not have BlobBuilder at all.
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