[webkit-dev] Feature Proposal: Implement Stream and StreamReader

Elliott Sprehn esprehn at chromium.org
Tue Feb 19 13:38:53 PST 2013


Darin Fisher pointed out to me that this is about Stream and StreamReader
per the subject, not StreamBuilder (which is not planned to be implemented
yet).

So sounds good to me! :)


On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 1:28 PM, Elliott Sprehn <esprehn at chromium.org>wrote:

> This API seems like it's in an inconsistent state with the other web
> platform features going on right now.
>
> ex. StreamBuilder sounds like BlobBuilder, and we recently killed that for
> a constructor for Blob.
>
> It's a bit concerning that we're going to add this feature, and then
> perhaps change it, and then need to go through the "how long does it take
> to deprecate features" cycle again.
>
> What's the plan for turning this on?
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 2:12 AM, Zach Kuznia <zork at chromium.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi webkit-dev!
>>
>> I'm currently working on adding support for Stream and StreamReader to
>> WebKit.
>> https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/streams-api/raw-file/tip/Overview.htm
>>
>> This support will be behind the ENABLE_STREAM feature define.
>>
>> I have a prototype which implements readAsArrayBuffer() from an XHR
>> connection at:
>> https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=110194
>>
>> Tests will be added as I change it to a real implementation.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> -Zach
>>
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