On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Darin Fisher <da...@chromium.org> wrote: > There is some interest from application developers at Google in being able > to get a Blob corresponding to the response body of a XMLHttpRequest. > The use case is to improve the efficiency of getting a Blob from a binary > resource downloaded via XHR. > The alternative is to play games with character encodings so that > responseText can be used to fetch an image as a string, and then use > BlobBuilder to reconstruct the image file, again being careful with the > implicit character conversions. All of this is very inefficient. > Is there any appetite for adding a responseBlob getter on XHR?
There has been talk about exposing a responseBody property which would contain the binary response. However ECMAScript is still lacking a binary type. Blob does fit the bill in that it represents binary data, however it's asynchronous nature is probably not ideal here, right? / Jonas
