← Back to release summary

Blob

Category

File APIs

Type

New or changed feature

Status

Enabled by default (Chrome 20)

Intent stage

None

Summary

Allows you to construct Blobs directly (var blob = new Blob(["1234"], {type: 'text/plain'})). Blob() constructor also can take ArrayBufferView directly rather than constructing a blob with ArrayBuffer.

Standards & signals

• Specification: http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/FileAPI/#dfn-Blob
• Firefox: Shipped/Shipping
• Safari: Shipped/Shipping
• Web developers: No signals

Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Blob

View on chromestatus.com