On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 12:43 PM, Julien Wajsberg <[email protected]>
wrote:

>
> Le 13/11/2015 18:35, Josh Smith a écrit :
>
> If we want to make the activity really powerful, it could pass a File or
> FileHandle object. This would allow the editor to access file attributes
> and read it properly (
> https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Web/API/FileReader). In this case, we
> could omit all other parameters (except possibly readonly).
>
>
> I'm not sure but I think it could already work -- but then all consumers
> would need to follow this behavior. I think it's much easier to just follow
> this simple interface
>

To follow which interface?

I worked on a file browser once, and we had to implement code to read
various file types differently. E.g. DOCX files require
reader.readAsArrayBuffer() and HTML files require reader.readAsText(). It
is much easier to allow the editor to handle this.

--
Joshua Smith
Plinth Laboratories
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