8531 2009-12-21 11:08:44 +0000 Add specification of atob and btoa 2010-10-04 14:56:11 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) unspecified PC All RESOLVED WONTFIX P2 normal --- 1 james ian contributor ian mike mjs public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 30223 0 james 2009-12-21 11:08:44 +0000 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. 30430 1 mjs 2010-01-05 03:55:01 +0000 *** Bug 8559 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** 30432 2 mjs 2010-01-05 03:56:50 +0000 Perhaps these should be defined at the ECMAScript level, since they are not Web-dependent. 30666 3 ian 2010-01-06 12:13:23 +0000 Are they willing to spec it? If not, I'm happy to add them here. 30693 4 ian 2010-01-07 06:32:14 +0000 EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html 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.