streams.md

Real-world testing for readable streams

The goal of this testing project is to:

• Find existing web sites that actually do use streams in Firefox Nightly (when streams are enabled);

• Test the user experience with those sites and report any bugs or performance problems.

(We already have API-level tests for streams that run in automation, so we are not requesting new automated tests that exercise the streams API directly.)

Readable streams technical documentation

Specifically, we're interested in web sites that use these features:

• ReadableStream

• ByteLengthQueueingStrategy and CountQueueingStrategy

• Response.body, a new property that appears on the Response objects produced by fetch()

These features are avaliable in Firefox Nightly, but currently off by default. To enable them, visit about:config and set javascript.options.enabled to true.

The best technical introduction to this feature is the Streams API page on MDN. The Streams standard document may also be useful.