On Mon, 7 Feb 2011, Adam van den Hoven wrote:
>
> window.atob() and window.btoa() feel wrong, so does
> window.crypto.getRandomUint8Array(length), not because they're not
> useful but because there is no answer to 'what does converting binary
> data to a base 64 string have to do with window?'
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 6:15 PM, Adam van den Hoven wrote:
> But that is exactly what has happened, or perhaps some existing pollution is
> simply being codified.
atob() and btoa() were first implemented years ago, I guess by
Netscape, and are supported in all major browsers except IE. So they
we
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 4:36 PM, Brett Zamir wrote:
> On 2/8/2011 1:33 AM, Adam van den Hoven wrote:
>>
>> Hey guys,
>>
>> I was reading the blog today and something I read (
>> http://blog.whatwg.org/whatwg-extensibility) prompted me to signup to the
>> list and get involved again. What follows is
On 2/8/2011 1:33 AM, Adam van den Hoven wrote:
Hey guys,
I was reading the blog today and something I read (
http://blog.whatwg.org/whatwg-extensibility) prompted me to signup to the
list and get involved again. What follows is not exactly well thought out
but I'm hoping that it will spark somet
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Aryeh Gregor
> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 12:33 PM, Adam van den Hoven
> wrote:
> > In reality all these belong to javascript, but modifying JS to include
> them
> > is not feasible. Also, what if I don't want to do crypto in my code, why
> > should I have a
On Mon, 7 Feb 2011 15:03:55 -0500, Aryeh Gregor wrote:
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 12:33 PM, Adam van den Hoven
wrote:
...
Further, in CommonJS, the library has to export an object in order
to make
it available. If we could define things in such a way that the
browser
compiled the library indep
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 12:33 PM, Adam van den Hoven wrote:
> In reality all these belong to javascript, but modifying JS to include them
> is not feasible. Also, what if I don't want to do crypto in my code, why
> should I have all that lying around (not that its a hardship but why pollute
> the g
Hey guys,
I was reading the blog today and something I read (
http://blog.whatwg.org/whatwg-extensibility) prompted me to signup to the
list and get involved again. What follows is not exactly well thought out
but I'm hoping that it will spark something.
window.atob() and window.btoa() feel wrong
