On Wed, 08 Sep 2010 20:13:19 +0200, Chris Marrin <[email protected]> wrote:
ArrayBuffer certainly has momentum behind it. It started as a part of
the WebGL spec as a way of passing buffers of data of various types
(sometimes heterogeneous types) to the WebGL engine. Since then, it
has found uses in the Web Audio proposal, the File API and there has
been talk in using it as a way to pass data to Web Workers.
Do you mean WebSockets?
Web Sockets is certainly another candidate, but I meant Web Workers.
There have been informal discussions on using ArrayBuffers as a way to
safely share binary data between threads. I don't believe anything has
been formalized here.
Oh, as in posting to a worker with postMessage? Yeah that could be useful.
A side-effect of speccing this would be that other stuff that use the
structured clone algorithm would also support ArrayBuffer, e.g.
localStorage.
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Simon Pieters
Opera Software
