Brian, Nope to which part of his question? I thought the File API was an implementation of the W3C File API? Even the File API docs page begins with:
"An API to read, write and navigate file system hierarchies, based on the w3c file api." John M. Wargo Twitter: @johnwargo -----Original Message----- From: brian.ler...@gmail.com [mailto:brian.ler...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Brian LeRoux Sent: Monday, November 18, 2013 5:11 PM To: dev@cordova.apache.org Subject: Re: Updating FileTransfer Answers inline. > Does FileTransfer implement any published standard, or is it our own API? > > Nope. > Does it make sense for FileTransfer to continue to use raw FileSystem paths > (and *not* go through File at all?) given that the File API will soon be > returning only relative paths and filesystem:// URLs. > > Consistent w/ URL scheme makes sense to me but I'll let others chime in how this will break everything and our users will hate us. But remember: plugins are versioned!
