Kenneth Russell (2014-01-10T18:47:51.000Z)
domenic at domenicdenicola.com (2014-01-17T04:41:14.161Z)
There was some discussion about implementing StringView on the blink-dev mailing list in August 2013. My opinion was and is that the Encoding spec satisfies these use cases. Adding a StringView to Typed Arrays would bring along all of the complexities of character set encoding and decoding to the Typed Array definitions. Typed Arrays were designed to be small, simple, and comprehensible enough that they would be easily implementable and optimizable. I believe that adding a StringView would contradict these goals.