On 5/13/10 7:37 AM, David Levin wrote:
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 5:27 AM, Arun Ranganathan<[email protected]> wrote:
Greetings WebApps WG,
I have updated the editor's draft of the File API to reflect changes that
have been in discussion.
http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/FileAPI
Notably:
1. Blobs now allow further binary data operations by exposing an
ArrayBuffer property that represents the Blob.
Does this imply *sync* access to the blob data? "new
DataArray(blob.blobBuffer).getInt8(0);"
Sync. access to a Blob shouldn't be allowed; this is a *big* oversight
on my part, and I think how the property is exposed should be considered
better.
Also, does it imply the ability to modify the blob contents? (If so, what
does this mean when there is a file backing it?)
"new DataArray(blob.blobBuffer).setInt8(0, 0);"
This is part of the same oversight (evident in the editor's draft).
I think this aspect of things should be left to BlobBuilder or FileWriter.
-- A*
Thanks, dave
