Since most recent-ish platforms support xhr2 (excluding the always joyful Android 2.x) [1], it would probably be a REALLY good thing for FileTransfer to become a polyfill for xhr2.
I know that would mean a major version bump and an api change… but isn’t that what we seem to already be discussing? 1. http://caniuse.com/#feat=xhr2 On 23 Nov 2013, at 9:02 am, Brian LeRoux <b...@brian.io> wrote: > Ya FileTransfer not a spec and this is mostly solved now by XHR2 which our > File implementation predates. (Also why we split it out.) > > > On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 12:16 PM, Ian Clelland <iclell...@chromium.org>wrote: > >> On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 3:12 PM, Wargo, John <john.wa...@sap.com> wrote: >> >>> 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: >>> >> >> The question was about FIleTransfer, not File -- and I think that the nope >> was to the published spec side of the disjunction. (But I'll let Brian >> clarify if I'm wrong) >> >> As far as I can tell, there isn't a FileTransfer.upload / >> FileTransfer.download API anywhere else that's quite like the Cordova API. >> >> Ian >> >> >>> >>> "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! >>> >>
