Re: [hybi] design space draft

[Christopher Blizzard <[e-mail]>]

  On 6/28/2010 3:14 PM, Jack Moffitt wrote:
>>> * I expanded on the restrictions that browser-based clients have,
>>> including for example the fact that JavaScript has no real ability for
>>> working with binary as anything other than blobs.
>> This is changing now.  We're starting to see browsers support binary data
>> from the WebGL work and also starting to read in chunks of data from blobs
>> via the File API and other interfaces.
> I did some Googling for what the current state of the art was, but I
> didn't find this. Can you point me to some places where I can learn
> more? I'll make sure to note that stuff in the next version of the
> draft.
>
> I did find the File API work, but that didn't seem to have anything
> that would help with binary framed protocols for example.
>
> jack.

[ sorry, mis-send. ]

Here's a post from Vlad, who works on WebGL on the subject of native arrays:

http://blog.vlad1.com/2009/11/06/canvasarraybuffer-and-canvasarray/

Note that we're working on adding interfaces to expose this from XHR, 
Vlad has expressed interest in doing the same to the WebSocket DOM 
interfaces and we're working on one from the File API as well. 
Basically anywhere where the browser is expected to handle a big pile of 
binary data, we should probably be exposing interfaces to expose them as 
native arrays.

--Chris