Greetings public-webapps, I'd like to encourage some review of File API:
http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/FileAPI/ You can send comments to this listserv, or file a bug, since this spec. now has a Bugzilla component. Here are some notable changes: 1. Blob is now constructable, following discussions on the listserv [Blob]. We're not using rest params and ES6 syntactic sugar *yet* (arrays for now), but I still think it one-ups BlobBuilder. 2. URL.createObjectURL now takes an optional boolean, following discussions on the listserv [oneTimeOnly]. 3. File's immutable "snapshot" nature means that it is prudent to specify correctly what happens following a post-reference modification; I'd like us to standardize NotReadableError (thrown as NotReadableError as DOMError following error event). [Snapshot] 4. Portions of the blob: protocol have been removed, following discussion on the listserv [Protocol1]. 5. String length restrictions have been relaxed [Protocol2]. 6. I'd like reader.readAsText(file) to be informed by the Encodings Specification [Enc]. I'll catch up with annevk about this separately, but I've changed the encoding algorithm to be neater. 7. readAsBinaryString has been disappeared [nukeRABS]. Please review the editor's draft at: http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/FileAPI/ -- A* [Blob] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2011OctDec/0439.html [oneTimeOnly] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2011OctDec/1499.html [Snapshot] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2012JanMar/0177.html [Protocol1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2011OctDec/1495.html [Protocol2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2011OctDec/1496.html [Enc] http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/encoding/raw-file/tip/Overview.html [nukeRABS] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2011OctDec/1497.html
