[webkit-dev] Stream API

[Darin Fisher]

Has anyone reviewed the Stream API proposal from Microsoft?

Here's the spec:
http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/streams-api/raw-file/tip/Overview.htm

I see only a little mention of it on webapps-public:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2011OctDec/1494.html

(I haven't looked over the proceedings from TPAC.)

Thoughts on this API?

My take:  It seems useful to have a variant of Blob that supports data of
unknown length.  It seems a bit unfortunate to have StreamReader and
FileReader, which are so similar.  StreamBuilder seems like it may be
unnecessary given that it does not support appending Streams.  It seems
like providing a way to get a Stream from a Blob would be sufficient, or if
we could just pass Blobs to any API that takes a Stream, then we wouldn't
need StreamBuilder.  That is, Blobs should really just be Streams of known
length.

-Darin
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