On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Neil Kandalgaonkar neilk@wikimedia.org wrote:
That's what I said in the very next paragraph. :)
I just wanted to clarify that yes, we do have native chunking in some browsers; no, it's not adequate for very large media files.
Yeah, I was just confused because I thought I said exactly the same thing. :)
- Mozilla, Chrome, or some other browser maker steps up with a plausible
API. We should make the case to them. We see the Moz people regularly at the WMF and I know a few Chrome people, so maybe I can kick something off.
This is the right place to bring it up:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/
I think the right API change would be to just allow slicing a Blob up into other Blobs by byte range. It should be simple to both spec and implement. But it might have been discussed before, so best to look in the archives first.