Firefox assumes that created data blobs (using data Object instead of an URL) are XML, outputs errors

[d3d9]

TANGRAM VERSION: 0.21.1

ENVIRONMENT: win7 64bit Firefox 84.0.1, win10 64bit Firefox 85.0, (no errors:) win10 64bit Edge 87

TO REPRODUCE THE ISSUE, FOLLOW THESE STEPS:

• use scene.setDataSource with type "GeoJSON" and data property instead of an URL
• look at the console output (at layer rebuild)

RESULT:

There are errors at the blob locations: "XML Parsing Error: not well-formed".
Apparently the browser assumes blobs to be XML by default, if no type is given.
Outside of the console, I could not notice negative effects.

EXPECTED RESULT:

No such errors appearing in the console.

It seems like this is fixed, at least for (Geo)JSON data, by providing an object like { type: 'application/geo+json' } or at least { type: 'application/json' } to the Blob constructor here:

tangram/src/scene/scene.js

Line 1037 in 990d260

source.url = URLs.createObjectURL(new Blob([JSON.stringify(source.data)]));

[bcamper]

Thanks for the report and easy fix @d3d9! I wonder if this behavior has changed at some point in Firefox versions, but no matter now... this will be released in v0.21.2 and the issue will be closed then.