On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Peter Kasting <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 10:01 PM, Darin Fisher <[email protected]> wrote: > >> For reference, this is https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=465. >> A 3 digit Mozilla bug! >> Personally, I don't think we should spend much time on active mode FTP. >> It doesn't seem that valuable given that it is not supported by Firefox and >> only available in IE through an advanced option. >> >> > I agree that we shouldn't spend much time on this, but only because passive > mode seems to work more widely than active mode. Basing FTP decisions in > general on what IE and Firefox support is a little bogus given that > historically browser FTP support has been far inferior to the support in > dedicated clients like FileZilla, which means people who care about FTP are > forced not to use IE/Firefox anyway. > > PK > But we're not trying to build an uber FTP client. We are trying to build sufficient FTP support into Chrome so that people do not need to load FTP links in another browser. If they have to go to a separate FTP client regardless of the browser they are using, then that's a secondary concern. -Darin --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
