[whatwg] HTMLCanvasElement.toFile()

[Henri Sivonen]

On Jan 8, 2010, at 05:59, Jonas Sicking wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 5:27 PM, Shumpei Shiraishi
> <shumpei.shiraishi at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi.
>> 
>> I think the method name "toFile()" is missleading, because I agree to
>> the Maciej's openion.
>> 
>>> I don't think using File for temporary in-memory binary data, as opposed to a file on disk, makes sense.
>> 
>> So, how about changing the method name to "toBlob()" and signature as follows?
>> 
>> Blob toBlob(in optional DOMString type, in any... args);
> 
> This doesn't address my concern that you won't know the mime type of
> the blob returned.

Image types can be reliably distinguished from the magic number, so having the MIME type isn't critical in that sense.

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