[whatwg] HTMLCanvasElement.toFile()

[Jonas Sicking]

On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 2:27 PM, João Eiras <joaoe at 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