Marcin Hanclik wrote:
Hi Anne,
XHR still is used also for data retrieval, so it is a kind of border case and I can live
with "load" there :) .
Using "load" for writing to a file will mean that we are stuck with the legacy stuff.
"load" and "write" pull semantically in the opposite directions, IMHO.
I think there is still time to change it in case of FileReader and prepare
background for FileWriter.
To be clear, IMHO it's absolutely too late for FileReader, and also not
desirable. I've already mentioned developer familiarity with onload,
etc. and I strongly disagree with changing names in this case. The
existing progress events are fine for FileReader. We've also got a beta
implementation in place in Fx 3.6.
Regarding FileWriter, I'm open to considering new event names, but in
general, discussing FileWriter's event model may be putting the cart in
front of the horse. Even if we had an event-driven FileWriter, what
would it do? We'll need to figure out filesystem access (real or
virtual) first! :-) More on this topic in separate email.
-- A*
