> From: Jonas Sicking [mailto:jo...@sicking.cc] > > On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 9:26 AM, Anne van Kesteren <ann...@annevk.nl> > wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 6:23 PM, Jonas Sicking <jo...@sicking.cc> wrote: > >> I do somewhat agree that if we had a full "stream" solution in the > >> form of a Stream primitive and .responseType="stream", then a better > >> solution might be to use that in combination with having chunked > >> delivery on the Stream class instead. > > > > Was Microsoft going to take a stab at that? I could write something > > like that up in XMLHttpRequest I suppose. Although maybe that would > > require a bunch of coordination with the MediaStream stuff? > > I can't speak to anyone else's plans. But it does seem like a proposal > was made quite a long time ago and as I recall it it received > favorable feedback, but so far nothing else has happened.
It hasn't been updated in a while, but we're still keen on seeing it move forward AFAIK: http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/streams-api/raw-file/tip/Overview.htm