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Bug 11074 - Why does this need to be a specific codec? Why couldn't developers have the option to specify the type of the stream, similar to the way a MIME type can be specified in the canvas's toDataURL method?
Summary: Why does this need to be a specific codec? Why couldn't developers have the o...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2010-10-16 19:26 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2012-07-18 18:48 UTC (History)
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Description contributor 2010-10-16 19:26:26 UTC 
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/complete.html#stream-api

Comment:
Why does this need to be a specific codec? Why couldn't developers have the
option to specify the type of the stream, similar to the way a MIME type can
be specified in the canvas's toDataURL method?

Posted from: 65.185.149.158
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2010-12-26 20:07:12 UTC 
One day, maybe. However, for the first version, the simplest possibly behaviour is probably best. Then we can add the knobs in a second version later.