Re: Streams and Blobs

2013-02-27 Thread Tillmann Karras
On 2013-02-27 02:55, Glenn Maynard wrote: What are some actual use cases?  I don't think any have been mentioned on this thread. - I would like to stream realtime TV. Pausing shouldn't be a problem because I don't rely on POST requests and I would just buffer up to a certain limit. - Another

CfC: publish Proposed Recommendation of Web Storage; deadline March 6

2013-02-27 Thread Arthur Barstow
We now have an Implementation Report [ImplReprt] for the Web Storage CR [CR] that indicates we have meet the exit criteria using the tests the group approved last year [TS-Approve]. As such, this is a Call for Consensus to publish a Proposed Recommendation of Web Storage using [CR] as the

Re: Streams and Blobs

2013-02-27 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 12:02 AM, Darin Fisher da...@chromium.org wrote: I assume that even if the Stream is not done downloading that it should be safe to reuse the XHR object that provided the Stream, right? Hmm, I can imagine some implementation complexity arising from saying that a XHR is

Re: Streams and Blobs

2013-02-27 Thread Aaron Colwell
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 7:24 AM, Glenn Maynard gl...@zewt.org wrote: On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 12:02 AM, Darin Fisher da...@chromium.org wrote: I assume that even if the Stream is not done downloading that it should be safe to reuse the XHR object that provided the Stream, right? Hmm, I can

Re: Streams and Blobs

2013-02-27 Thread Aaron Colwell
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 5:55 PM, Glenn Maynard gl...@zewt.org wrote: On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 7:16 PM, Darin Fisher da...@chromium.org wrote: Interesting idea, but what is the motivation for this change? Why would the XHR (data provider) state machine need to change? XHR is a consumer, not

Re: Streams and Blobs

2013-02-27 Thread Darin Fisher
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 7:24 AM, Glenn Maynard gl...@zewt.org wrote: On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 12:02 AM, Darin Fisher da...@chromium.org wrote: I assume that even if the Stream is not done downloading that it should be safe to reuse the XHR object that provided the Stream, right? Hmm, I can

Re: Streams and Blobs

2013-02-27 Thread Darin Fisher
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 8:54 AM, Aaron Colwell acolw...@chromium.orgwrote: On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 5:55 PM, Glenn Maynard gl...@zewt.org wrote: On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 7:16 PM, Darin Fisher da...@chromium.org wrote: Interesting idea, but what is the motivation for this change? Why would

Re: Streams and Blobs

2013-02-27 Thread Cyril Concolato
Hi Anne, Le 26/02/2013 17:34, Anne van Kesteren a écrit : On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 3:01 PM, Cyril Concolato cyril.concol...@telecom-paristech.fr wrote: Hi Anne, Did you mean to reply just to me? No, adding the list. * moz-blob Is this the same as blob specified in the XHR2 draft [1]?

[admin] Registration for 25-26 April 2013 f2f meeting open; deadline April 5

2013-02-27 Thread Arthur Barstow
The registration page for WebApps' April 25-26 f2f meeting in San Jose CA US is now open: https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/42538/webapps-april-2013/ Registration is required and registration ends on April 5. The agenda and logistics page is: http://www.w3.org/wiki/Webapps/April2013Meeting

Face to face meeting registration

2013-02-27 Thread Charles McCathie Nevile
Hi folks, Registration at the meeting is required. The #registration page is now available (thanks PLH), and linked from the #meeting page on the wiki. Note that we expect to finish at lunchtime on Friday, so people can leave in the afternoon to catch flights. #registration:

Re: Streams and Blobs

2013-02-27 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Aaron Colwell acolw...@chromium.orgwrote: - I would like to stream realtime TV. Pausing shouldn't be a problem because I don't rely on POST requests and I would just buffer up to a certain limit. - Another use case that comes to mind is starting to watch

Re: Streams and Blobs

2013-02-27 Thread Darin Fisher
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 5:26 PM, Glenn Maynard gl...@zewt.org wrote: On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Aaron Colwell acolw...@chromium.orgwrote: - I would like to stream realtime TV. Pausing shouldn't be a problem because I don't rely on POST requests and I would just buffer up to a certain

RE: Streams and Blobs

2013-02-27 Thread Travis Leithead
Also, the Stream object lets you pipe the data from to/from Web Workers, which can be handy in certain scenarios. From: da...@google.com [mailto:da...@google.com] On Behalf Of Darin Fisher [snip] Another thing not to lose sight of is that a Stream abstraction could be useful as an optimization