[whatwg] ArrayBuffer and ByteArray questions

Jian Li jianli at chromium.org
Tue Sep 14 12:13:46 PDT 2010


Yes, we only need to add it to BlobBuilder so that it can be applied to both
FileReader, XHR.send and any other place that take the blob.


On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Eric Uhrhane <ericu at google.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 4:09 PM, Jian Li <jianli at chromium.org> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > Several specs, like File API and WebGL, use ArrayBuffer, while other
> spec,
> > like XMLHttpRequest Level 2, use ByteArray. Should we change to use the
> same
> > name all across our specs? Since we define ArrayBuffer in the Typed
> Arrays
> > spec
> > (
> https://cvs.khronos.org/svn/repos/registry/trunk/public/webgl/doc/spec/TypedArray-spec.html
> ),
> > should we favor ArrayBuffer?
> > In addition, can we consider adding ArrayBuffer support to BlobBuilder,
> > FormData, and XMLHttpRequest.send()?
>
> It seems like an obvious addition for BlobBuilder or XHR.send, but do
> we need it in both, or is one sufficient?
>
> > Thanks,
> > Jian
> >
>
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