On Feb 16, 2010, at 12:13 AM, Jonas Sicking wrote:
Absolutely! I definitely agree that we need a type like this. The sooner the better. On that note, do you know what the latest status is within ECMA on this? I know you made a proposal on the webapps list (or was it here?), did that go anywhere?
I made my proposal to ECMA TC-39 (the relevant committee). I will try to polish it and request it as an agenda item for the next face-to- face (in March). Independently, WebGL's typed arrays have been proposed.
However I suspect it'd be useful to be able to extract as Blob object as well, for storing in places like databases or to extract a url.
If we end up with APIs in some places that only take Blobs as input, then we should probably have easy ways to make a Blob out of a binary data object or a string (like StringStreams in other languages).
Regards, Maciej
