On 1/31/2011 1:17 AM, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
I somehow missed that a request to add back ArrayBuffer support was
offlist. Since quite a few specifications are using it now and TC 39
has shown no progress on developing an alternative I was convinced to
add it back in. The responseType value is "arraybuffer". This adds a
dependency to the Typed Array specification developed at Khronos.
http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/XMLHttpRequest-2/
While on that topic, it'd be nice to see a fixed-size ArrayBuffer,
for working with streams and large-files.
Currently: blob requires the entire file be downloaded before use,
classically, the stream could be ready while downloading, and the final
response just 'tossed' (when the stream is complete).
Even a hard-coded array buffer size would be helpful (though it'd be
nice to have that as a settable value):
Something along these lines would allow processing of binary data
without requiring
the entire stream to be loaded into memory / downloaded.
xhr.responseType='stream'
xhr.buffer = new ArrayBuffer(...len...);
-Charles
