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

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