On 2011-01-21 21:50, Glenn Maynard wrote:
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 1:55 PM, David Flanagan<[email protected]> wrote:
Doesn't the current XHR2 spec address this use case?
Browsers don't seem to implement it yet, but shouldn't something like this
work for the original poster?
He wants to be able to stream data out, not just in.
It's tricky in practice, because there's no way for whoever's reading
the stream to block. For example, if you're reading a 1 GB video on a
phone with 256 MB of memory, it needs to stop buffering when it's out
of memory until some data has been played and thrown away, as it would
when streaming from the network normally. That requiests an API more
complex than simply writing to a file.
Hmm! And I guess it's very difficult to create a abstract in/out
interface that can handle any protocol/stream.
Although an abstract in/out would be ideal as that would let new
protocols to be supported without needing to rewrite anything at the
higher level.
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