On Feb 6, 2013 8:59 PM, "Arun Ranganathan" <a...@mozilla.com> wrote: > > Greetings WebApps WG! > > Review on the File API is encouraged: > > http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/FileAPI/ > > A few substantial changes that might need particular attention before we initiate a call for LCWD or something comparably official: > > 1. autoRevoke behavior of Blob URIs has changed. Previous drafts made the autoRevoke behavior on by default (by consensus), but didn't harness revocation to a suitable and unambiguous "scope." Thanks to a fix to HTML[1] we can leverage the global script clean-up jobs list, to which we add revocation of Blob URIs. Blob URIs are thus either scoped to the next time global script clean-up jobs are processed (by default), OR when document unloading steps are processed if the developer opts out of the default but never pairs it with a call to URL.revokeObjectURL, OR when URL.revokeObjectURL is called. > > In particular, this behavior defers from shipping implementations such as IE10. This is possibly the biggest change: > > http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/FileAPI/#lifeTime > > http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/FileAPI/#creating-revoking
I would definitely like to get input from other implementers if this is a change that you are willing to do? > 2. An utility to smooth line ending variations (Unix vs. Windows) has been added, but is an orphan interface currently. Nobody's fussed over this, and it might not be a problem at all, but I'd like to draw your attention to it :) While currently only relevant for DOMString arguments to the Blob constructor, we might work with the utility to add other arguments (including ArrayBufferViews, etc.). > > http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/FileAPI/#convenienceAPI Given how recent this addition is, and given that it's fairly easy to implement in JS directly, I think we should drip this feature from v1 and reconsider for a later version. As it stands now it doesn't really seem to add a lot of value. / Jonas
