[whatwg] "binary" encoding
Glenn Maynard
glenn at zewt.org
Tue Jun 12 13:15:21 PDT 2012
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 1:45 PM, Joshua Bell <jsbell at chromium.org> wrote:
> These don't handle data streaming scenarios, however.
>
Streaming definitely belongs in the string encoding API. The atob/btoa
interface is fine for fixed strings, but if you wedge streaming into it
you're just going to end up with the TextEncoder/TextDecoder APIs all over
again. The only tricky bit--which has been brought up before--is that the
terms "encode" and "decode" are flipped (encoding binary into a base64
string vs. encoding a string into UTF-8). I forget if that actually causes
any issues in the API or if it's just semantics.
Maybe nobody actually wants to decode big chunks of base64 client-side. I
don't have any use cases for it, myself.
--
Glenn Maynard
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