I want to believe. SVG as an image format.As promised, I have a tiny thing to announce here. I recently split off and refactored the code that deals binary data in kthoom into a new open source project: https://github.com/codedread/bitjs, Binary Tools for JavaScript.

The faster and faster JavaScript engines in modern browsers and the rise of new technologies like Typed Arrays, Web Workers, and the File APIs mean that browsers can actually be used to read in binary formats completely on the client-side (as long as native performance isn't a requirement).

For now the library includes two main capabilities:

  • streams for reading in bits and bytes from a Typed Array
  • unarchiving zip, rar or tar files (that's right, you can unzip and unrar in JavaScript now)
§1026 · September 19, 2011 · JavaScript, Software, Technology, Web · · [Print]

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