Re: [webkit-dev] Notifications for Blob serialization/deserialization

2012-07-10 Thread Michael Nordman
On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Greg Billock wrote: > Do you think the way my patch does this, by exposing two new methods on > the BlobController for notifying serialization and deserialization, will be > sufficient? For IndexedDB, it looks to me that notifications like this (or on the > Blob

Re: [webkit-dev] Notifications for Blob serialization/deserialization

2012-07-03 Thread Greg Billock
Do you think the way my patch does this, by exposing two new methods on the BlobController for notifying serialization and deserialization, will be sufficient? For IndexedDB, it looks to me that notifications like this (or on the BlobData ID, as you propose) will be critical -- the IndexedDB will

Re: [webkit-dev] Notifications for Blob serialization/deserialization

2012-06-26 Thread Michael Nordman
I think revamping our Blob handling is one of the projects that I should be working on next. What we have now is proving to be too difficult to work with in a variety of ways. The more i look at this particular difficulty with sending blobs within serialized values (within chromium), the more conv

Re: [webkit-dev] Notifications for Blob serialization/deserialization

2012-06-26 Thread Joshua Bell
On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 10:19 AM, Greg Billock wrote: > I've been working with Michael Nordman on a problem related to Blob > serialization. Currently, if we serialize a Blob, there's no > notification to the BlobRegistry, so the serialized Blob will be > garbage collected at an indeterminate tim

[webkit-dev] Notifications for Blob serialization/deserialization

2012-06-26 Thread Greg Billock
I've been working with Michael Nordman on a problem related to Blob serialization. Currently, if we serialize a Blob, there's no notification to the BlobRegistry, so the serialized Blob will be garbage collected at an indeterminate time if the context in which it was created is closed. This lifetim