On 10/18/10 10:14 AM, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 16:03:30 +0200, Arthur Barstow
<[email protected]> wrote:
Arun and Jonas would like to publish a new Working Draft of the
File API spec and this is Call for Consensus to do so:
http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/FileAPI/
As with all of our CfCs, positive response is preferred and
encouraged and silence will be assumed to be assent.
The deadline for comments is October 22. This comment period is a bit
shorter than our typical 1-week review period but this will allow us
to sync the publication of this spec with the File API: {Writer,
Directories and System} specs. If this short comment period causes
any issues or concerns, please let us know.
I support publication, but [XHR2] is currently a broken link (misses a
# I think).
Duly noted. I'll fix this ASAP.
Also, if createBlobURL is the way to go -- rather than Blob.url -- can
we design it in a generic way so that it also works for Stream objects?
This would be a good idea; this was noted as part of the issues [1].
Is your suggestion to have a generic method (with a better name) that
takes Streams or Blobs as arguments? Do you have a suggestion for
signature or method name?
Otherwise we will get createStreamURL as well which seems kind of
unnecessary. Maybe even better, can we somehow converge this with the
URL specification Adam Barth was working on? So you can do new
URL(Blob) rather than having more methods on Window?
OK, that's engineering for maximum use cases, but not a bad idea on the
whole. However last I checked, the URL API was a proposal as a Google
doc[2]. Does it live somewhere more permanent? Implementations are
already in circulation that have *.createBlobURL which leads me to:
Also, is there some kind of implementation summary available regarding
the File API specifications? With what is shipping prefixed and what
is shipping without a prefix? We are interested in supporting this too
in the distant future.
No, but there should be. I think it's Firefox nightlies and Chromium
nightlies for now. Firefox isn't using a prefix on the method.
-- A*
[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2010OctDec/0083.html
[2]
https://docs.google.com/document/edit?id=1r_VTFKApVOaNIkocrg0z-t7lZgzisTuGTXkdzAk4gLU&hl=en&pli=1#
