I think Microsoft's stream proposal would address this use case. / Jonas
On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 5:59 PM, Wenbo Zhu <[email protected]> wrote: > One use case that we have which is not currently handled by XMLHttpRequest > is incrementally sending data that takes a long time to generate _from the > client to the server_. For example, if we were to record data from a > microphone, we couldn't upload it in real time to the server with the > current API. > > The MediaStreaming spec also mentioned several use cases which would require > streaming request data via an API: > - Sending the locally-produced streams to remote peers and receiving streams > from remote peers. > - Sending arbitrary data to remote peers. > > http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/video-conferencing-and-peer-to-peer-communication.html > > - Wenbo
