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Bug 8531 - Add specification of atob and btoa
Summary: Add specification of atob and btoa
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC All
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
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: 8559 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2009-12-21 11:08 UTC by James Graham
Modified: 2010-10-04 14:56 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Description James Graham 2009-12-21 11:08:44 UTC 
Base64 encoding/decoding methods window.atob and window.btoa should be specified. They are already supported in major engines except Trident and are convenient for working with base64 encoded data e.g. in data urls.
Comment 1 Maciej Stachowiak 2010-01-05 03:55:01 UTC 
*** Bug 8559 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Maciej Stachowiak 2010-01-05 03:56:50 UTC 
Perhaps these should be defined at the ECMAScript level, since they are not Web-dependent.
Comment 3 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2010-01-06 12:13:23 UTC 
Are they willing to spec it? If not, I'm happy to add them here.
Comment 4 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2010-01-07 06:32:14 UTC 
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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: This only seems to exist in Gecko and Webkit, and best belongs in the JS spec anyway, so I'm going to punt on this.