The typed array polyfill we provide in dist/ does not polyfill ArrayBuffer.isView

[etpinard]

First reported in plotly/plotly.R#1055

In our src code, we add a fallback to ArrayBuffer.isView here, but @dfcreative 's color-parse does not. This lead to 3D and gl2d (and anything else using color-rgba) breaking in RStudio even with typed array polyfill we provide in dist/.

So, we could of course patch color-parse to include an isView fallback, this will fix this one case. But maybe instead we could add a ArrayBuffer.isView polyfill to the typedarray.min.js we provide which will solve this problem for all our dependencies.

By the way, does anyone know where typedarray.min.js comes from?

cc @alexcjohnson @cpsievert @bcdunbar

[dy]

@etpinard I can just check if ArrayBuffer has that method.

[etpinard]

@etpinard I can just check if ArrayBuffer has that method.

Yeah, that would be great thanks 👍

[dy]

@etpinard done colorjs/color-parse@4be59c5#diff-168726dbe96b3ce427e7fedce31bb0bcL164

[etpinard]

Thanks @dfcreative I'll include your fix in the next patch release 1.29.1 (probably coming next Monday).

[etpinard]

Oops. I forgot to include this in 1.29.1. My mistake.

[etpinard]

@dfcreative would you mind publishing colorjs/color-parse@4be59c5#diff-168726dbe96b3ce427e7fedce31bb0bcL164 and making a PR here bumping color-rgba?

[dy]

@etpinard here #1915

[etpinard]

fixed by #1915 (verification made by @cpsievert )

[etpinard]

Actually, I'll reopen this issue.

#1915 fixed the issue, but the typed array polyfill we provide in dist/ does not polyfill ArrayBuffer.isView still holds.

[jackparmer]

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