Brendan Eich (2014-01-10T19:52:05.000Z)
Kenneth Russell wrote:
> 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.

+ a lot.

What can we do to make sure this thing stays dead, if it is dead? Anne 
may know some weird W3C protocol trick. ;-)

/be
domenic at domenicdenicola.com (2014-01-17T04:41:35.368Z)
Kenneth Russell wrote:
> 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.

\+ a lot.

What can we do to make sure this thing stays dead, if it is dead? Anne 
may know some weird W3C protocol trick. ;-)