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Re: [hybi] design space draft

Jack Moffitt <jack@collecta.com> Mon, 28 June 2010 22:14 UTC

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>> * 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.

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