I am investigating Google Gears for an application, but am running into problems with the local file APIs. The Desktop module allows files to be loaded into Blobs, but there is apparently no way, short of performing a trip to the server, to assign a URL to that blob (or otherwise access the data), so that the file can be included in the current page. For example, I would like the user to select a picture, and then automatically insert that picture into the page.
Unfortunately, LocalServer.captureFile is deprecated and there is no replacement yet. Are there any alternative ways to solve this problem, and, if not, does anyone have an idea of when the new URL-for-a-blob API will become available?
