Re: [hybi] design space draft

Christopher Blizzard <blizzard@mozilla.com> Mon, 28 June 2010 22:12 UTC

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Subject: Re: [hybi] design space draft
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  On 6/28/2010 3:09 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.

--Chris