[hybi] WebSockets / ECMAScript / Binary data
Joshua Bell <josh@lindenlab.com> Wed, 07 April 2010 18:56 UTC
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Subject: [hybi] WebSockets / ECMAScript / Binary data
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At the HyBi meeting at IETF77 in Anaheim, the subject of binary data in WebSockets came up. In the Jabber room backchatter, I mentioned that TC-39 (the ECMA Technical Committee responsible for ECMAScript) appeared to be looking into binary data support, based on my lurking on the es-discuss list (https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss) To revisit this with a bit of news: * Various binary data APIs have been discussed, based on proposals from community efforts - one thread from last year is at https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/es-discuss/2009-November/010116.html * In January, Vladimir Vukićević (and others) working on WebGL factored out the "Typed Arrays" functionality into a standalone spec, and brought it to the es-discuss list ( http://www.mail-archive.com/es-discuss@mozilla.org/msg03735.html) * Since then, Vlad and others have been working to refine the proposal. The latest is at: https://cvs.khronos.org/svn/repos/registry/trunk/public/webgl/doc/spec/TypedArray-spec.htmland is being discussed on the public_webgl list ( http://www.khronos.org/webgl/public-mailing-list/). While browser APIs are out of scope for HYBI, it seemed that there was interest from the attendees in the timeframe under which binary data might be usable by WebSocket clients and thus important to support in the protocol. At the risk of predicting the behavior of Web browser vendors, the loose answer to that might be: "as soon as WebGL is deployed", which has the potential of being quite soon... and perhaps even roughly aligned with the deployment of WebSockets implementations in browsers.
- [hybi] WebSockets / ECMAScript / Binary data Joshua Bell