Seems quite reasonable to me. We've got data URL strings for people who need inefficiency (or portable strings).
On Dec 13, 2011, at 4:52 PM, Adrian Bateman <adria...@microsoft.com> wrote: > Another topic that came up at TPAC was readAsBinaryString [1]. This method > predates support for typed arrays in the FileAPI and allows binary data > to be read and stored in a string. This is an inefficient way to store > data now that we have ArrayBuffer and we'd like to not support this method. > > At TPAC I proposed that we remove readAsBinaryString from the spec and > there was some support for this idea. I'd like to propose that we change > the spec to remove this. > > Thanks, > > Adrian. > > [1] http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/FileAPI/#readAsBinaryString > >