Re: File API: Blob and underlying file changes.

2010-01-15 Thread Darin Fisher
I don't think we should worry about underlying file changes. If the app wants to cut a file into parts and copy them separately, then perhaps the app should first copy the file into a private area. (I'm presuming that one day, we'll have the concept of a chroot'd private file storage area for a

Re: File API: Blob and underlying file changes.

2010-01-15 Thread Jonas Sicking
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 11:58 PM, Darin Fisher da...@chromium.org wrote: I don't think we should worry about underlying file changes. If the app wants to cut a file into parts and copy them separately, then perhaps the app should first copy the file into a private area.  (I'm presuming that

Restart the group

2010-01-15 Thread Rokesh Jankie
Hi there, I just found out that this group is very interesting and it stopped because of several reasons in 2007. We are in 2010 now and I think the momentum is there for declarative application development. We have a proposal and want to make it to an open specification. The question: how to

Re: Restart the group

2010-01-15 Thread Rokesh Jankie
I'm sorry for my mistake then. I would like to participate. Nice to hear the the group is much alive and active. Thanks for the note. Regards, Rokesh Jankie --- QAFE powered by experience quality Website : http://www.qafe.com/ Youtube : http://youtube.com/qafechannel LinkedIn:

Re: Restart the group

2010-01-15 Thread Arthur Barstow
Rokesh, On Jan 15, 2010, at 6:43 AM, ext Rokesh Jankie wrote: I just found out that this group is very interesting and it stopped because of several reasons in 2007. Perhaps you are thinking of the Web Applications Format (WAF) WG and Web API WG which both ended in 2008 (and as Lachan

Re: File API: Blob and underlying file changes.

2010-01-15 Thread Darin Fisher
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Dmitry Titov dim...@chromium.org wrote: Nobody proposed locking the file. Sorry for being unclear if that sounds like it. Basically it's all about timestamps. As Chris proposed earlier, a read operation can grab the timestamp of the file before and after

Re: File API: Blob and underlying file changes.

2010-01-15 Thread Jonas Sicking
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Dmitry Titov dim...@chromium.org wrote: Nobody proposed locking the file. Sorry for being unclear if that sounds like it. Basically it's all about timestamps. As Chris proposed earlier, a read operation can grab the timestamp of the file before and after

IndexedDB and MVCC

2010-01-15 Thread Chris Anderson
Hi, I've been reading the new IndexedDB spec as published here: http://www.w3.org/TR/IndexedDB/ My first impression is that this simpler than WebSimpleDB, but not too simple. I'm happy to see detached readers being mentioned. There's one other piece of the concurrency story that could be

Re: File API: Blob and underlying file changes.

2010-01-15 Thread Jonas Sicking
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 11:42 AM, Dmitry Titov dim...@chromium.org wrote: On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Jonas Sicking jo...@sicking.cc wrote: On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Dmitry Titov dim...@chromium.org wrote: Nobody proposed locking the file. Sorry for being unclear if that