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Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 09:05:18 -1000
From: Tim Newsham <newsham@lava.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 8:59 AM, C H Forsyth <forsyth@vitanuova.com> wrote:
>> has javascript finally got support for binary data?
>
> I haven't been following.  I find a lot of "web stuff" to be off-putting, so
> I've not been keeping up.  base64 encoding stuff is crap but could suffice
> in a pinch.

Did Javascript not support binary data in the past?  It seems
to support it fine in my browser at least.  Here's a transcript
from a javascript shell session in my browser (note, top line is
most recent, bottom line is oldest):

http://www.thenewsh.com/shell.html

   Eval: for(var i = 0; i < x.length; i++) _print(x.charCodeAt(i) + "\n");
   Return: undefined
   255
   254
   3
   2
   1
   0
   Eval: x = "\x00\x01\x02\x03\xfe\xff"
   Return:

> Dave

Tim Newsham
http://www.thenewsh.com/~newsham/