On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 2:27 PM, João Eiras <jo...@opera.com> wrote: > >>> This function takes the same arguments as toDataURL(), plus an >>> additional 'name' argument. It produces the same result as >>> toDataURL(), except that it returns the result as a File object rather >>> than as a data-url encoded string. This can then be directly sent >>> using XMLHttpRequest. >> >> I think it would make more sense to have an actual type for binary data >> (for example along the lines of my proposal on public-script-coord and >> es-discuss) and enable getting one from <canvas> and sending via XHR. > > How about just overloading xhr.send() to handle a <canvas> element ?
I'm reluctant to overload the meaning of sending an Element object. When a Document is passed to xhr.send() we already serialize that document into markup, it seems likely to me that in the future we'll want to do the same thing for Elements. / Jonas