On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 12:22 AM, Jonas Sicking <jo...@sicking.cc> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Darin Fisher <da...@chromium.org> wrote: > > Apologies if this has been discussed before, but I'm curious why URN is > not > > a property of Blob. It seems like it would be useful to be able to load > a > > slice of a File. For example, this could be used by an application to > fetch > > all of its subresources out of a single file. > > IIRC originally it was placed on File since Blobs do not have a > content type. However I think there is general agreement that it > should be moved to Blob. > > However it would be great to be able to assign a content type to a > Blob. Possibly slice() could take a optional argument. > > Adding an optional parameter to slice() sounds attractive indeed. BlobBuilder [1] should probably also have such an optional argument. -Darin [1] http://dev.w3.org/2009/dap/file-system/file-writer.html#the-blobbuilder-interface