Like this plan. Thanks for staying on top of that moving target Ian.
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 1:46 PM, Ian Clelland <iclell...@chromium.org>wrote: > Yeah, I've brought this up a couple of times before. There have been two > competing specs for file system access, and the one which Cordova > implements has officially "lost" now. It was only ever implemented on the > desktop by Chrome; Mozilla had some serious reservations about it. > > Practically, I think that this means that we should maintain the current > API -- it is one of the most-used plugins out there, with almost 100,000 > downloads from the plugin registry alone. Bug fixes at this point are at > our discretion, and I'm sure we can stay within the "spirit" of the spec, > even though it's deprecated. > > On the upside, we're free to extend it now, in whatever way makes sense for > mobile devices :) > > Regarding the new spec -- it does look good: not "callbacks all the way > down" like what we're used to. :) At the last f2f hangout, someone brought > up the idea that we should implement the new spec, and publish that as a > new plugin. Once it's out, we could refactor org.apache.cordova.file to be > a thin wrapper around it. Then there would be one place to handle most of > the tricky bits of file handling, apps written for the old plugin would > still work, and we'd have the new API to move forward with. > > > > On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 4:19 PM, Andrew Grieve <agri...@chromium.org> > wrote: > > > And thus continues the pattern of all Cordova APIs being based on > > defunct specs :P. > > > > Do love the new Promise-based API though. > > > > On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 4:05 PM, venkata kiran surapaneni > > <svkir...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Thanks for clarifying. > > > > > > > > > On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 1:26 AM, Shazron <shaz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > >> Based on this page: > > >> http://www.w3.org/Mobile/mobile-web-app-state/#Data_storage > > >> I think this is the new draft: > > >> http://w3c.github.io/filesystem-api/Overview.html > > >> (has Promises in there) > > >> > > >> File API seems unchanged. > > >> > > >> > > >> On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 12:37 PM, Shazron <shaz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> > > >> > http://www.w3.org/TR/file-system-api/ > > >> > > > >> > "*Work on this document has been discontinued and it should not be > > >> > referenced or used as a basis for implementation."* > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Thanks & Regards, > > > -Kiran > > >
