25665 2014-05-12 20:46:24 +0000 ArrayBufferView should include DataView 2014-05-13 18:13:06 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified WHATWG HTML unspecified Other other RESOLVED FIXED http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#dependencies P3 normal Unsorted 1 contributor ian bzbarsky cam hober0 ian kbr mike w3c contributor oldest_to_newest 105755 0 contributor 2014-05-12 20:46:24 +0000 Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/infrastructure.html Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#dependencies Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#dependencies Referrer: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/ Comment: ArrayBufferView should include DataView Posted from: 63.245.221.34 by bzbarsky@mit.edu User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:32.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/32.0 105756 1 bzbarsky 2014-05-12 20:47:30 +0000 http://www.khronos.org/registry/typedarray/specs/latest/#8 implements ArrayBufferView, for example. And in general, any time you want to allow _any_ typed array, you might as well allow DataView. 105773 2 ian 2014-05-12 22:21:49 +0000 Surprisingly, this really only requires adding DataView to ArrayBufferView, as far as I can tell. 105784 3 bzbarsky 2014-05-12 23:36:32 +0000 Yes, exactly. Or at least that will get things to parity with the existing bits for typed arrays, which don't exactly make much sense yet either.... :( 105793 4 kbr 2014-05-13 00:17:09 +0000 In discussions with the ECMAScript working group, ArrayBufferView as a concept was removed in favor of a type test, ArrayBuffer.isView. http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:specification_drafts#april_27_2014_draft_rev_24 specifies this function, and the WebGL conformance suite at https://github.com/KhronosGroup/WebGL verifies the presence and functionality of ArrayBuffer.isView. Is the complaint in Comment 3 that https://www.khronos.org/registry/typedarray/specs/latest/ should remove the ArrayBufferView concept? Agree that that should be done in order to achieve parity with the ES6 drafts -- though Khronos' typed array spec hasn't been touched since ES6 subsumed the functionality. 105794 5 bzbarsky 2014-05-13 00:21:37 +0000 Comment 3 is not a complaint, past the fact that as things stand using "Uint8Array" in IDL has no connection to the ES6 Uint8Array; that's a problem we need to fix in WebIDL. There's nothing you can do in the Khronos spec to change that. 105884 6 ian 2014-05-13 18:11:07 +0000 Yeah, the typedef in HTML is a polite fiction until WebIDL is updated to define a way to reference the actual underlying JavaScript concepts. (The Khronos spec is just a historical artefact now.) Ok, I've added DataView to the typedef. 105885 7 contributor 2014-05-13 18:13:06 +0000 Checked in as WHATWG revision r8628. Check-in comment: Allow DataView to be used where ArrayBufferView is mentioned http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=8627&to=8628