On 5/13/10 8:19 AM, Mark S. Miller wrote:
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 5:57 AM, Arun Ranganathan<[email protected]> wrote:
Greetings, TC-39 WG and script mavens!
Browser vendors participating in the WebGL WG intend to implement the
"Typed Arrays" specification, allowing for greater manipulation of binary
data:
https://cvs.khronos.org/svn/repos/registry/trunk/public/webgl/doc/spec/TypedArray-spec.html
The draft specification (a work in progress) resides at Khronos, which is
typically an unusual home for something integral to the rest of the web
platform. Khronos is where we work on WebGL, which enjoys Google, Opera,
Mozilla, and Apple participation, amongst other organizations.
The general usefulness of constructs such as ArrayBuffers (covered in the
"Typed Arrays" draft specification) lends itself to other web platform
specifications, such as the File API, parts of which are implemented in
Firefox 3.6.3:
http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/FileAPI/
In the above draft (also a work in progress), the Blob interface exposes an
ArrayBuffer property, which can then be used with different views.
While implementations are currently proceeding unimpeded by standards-track
considerations, it would be useful if Typed Arrays were taken on as a work
item by TC-39, for more general inclusion in JavaScript. Should it live
elsewhere, and if so, where?
http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=strawman:typed_arrays
I agree it should be taken on by TC39. On the strawman page, you are listed
as the champion of this proposal. It is on the agenda (see 6.4 or 6.5) for
the upcoming May 24/25 meeting. Hope to see you there!
Mark: the WebGL F2F coincides with this, and occurs on May 25 and May 26
at the Mozilla campus in Mountain View. If the TC39 meeting also takes
place in the Bay Area, I'm amenable to hosting a joint meeting in the
afternoon of May 25. I have proposed this to J. Neumann.
-- A*
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