jsStruct: C-style struct reading in Javascript

Protip: I ramble a lot before getting to the link in question. You probably just want to jump straight to the project.

So in case you haven't picked up on it yet I tend to work with a lot of binary files in Javascript. This is, to put it kindly, an absolute mess. (I would put it unkindly, but this is a family friendly blog!)

Now, to the credit of the browser makers, binary parsing has certainly gotten a lot better in a very short period of time. When I was doing my Quake 2 and Quake 3 demos, the only way to parse binary was to request you file as a raw string from the server and use String.charCodeAt() to grab the bytes one by one and reconstruct them into the appropriate data types. This meant that parsing a float looked like this: