Re: [whatwg] Make the files attribute of the input element writable

2013-01-29 Thread Garrett Smith
On 1/17/13, Ian Hickson wrote: > On Fri, 7 Dec 2012, Victor Costan wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 12:11 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: >> > On Wed, 5 Dec 2012, Victor Costan wrote: >> >> >> >> There was a thread on this mailing list discussing making it possible >> >> to set the file data behind an el

Re: [whatwg] Make the files attribute of the input element writable

2013-01-29 Thread Mounir Lamouri
On 07/12/12 21:42, Victor Costan wrote: > On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 12:11 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: >> On Wed, 5 Dec 2012, Victor Costan wrote: >>> >>> There was a thread on this mailing list discussing making it possible to >>> set the file data behind an element. >>> http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi

Re: [whatwg] Make the files attribute of the input element writable

2013-01-18 Thread Fred Andrews
> Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 20:45:59 + > From: i...@hixie.ch ... > > >> 1) This would make it possible to write JavaScript libraries that > > >> seamlessly scan the current page for and add > > >> integration with Dropbox / Google Drive / Sky Drive etc. I claim that > > >> changing the va

Re: [whatwg] Make the files attribute of the input element writable

2013-01-17 Thread Ian Hickson
On Fri, 7 Dec 2012, Victor Costan wrote: > On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 12:11 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: > > On Wed, 5 Dec 2012, Victor Costan wrote: > >> > >> There was a thread on this mailing list discussing making it possible > >> to set the file data behind an element. > >> http://lists.whatwg.org/h

Re: [whatwg] Make the files attribute of the input element writable

2012-12-15 Thread Cameron McCormack
On 16/12/12 2:05 PM, Boris Zbarsky wrote: There's no way to express that in WebIDL, but I think that's a bug we should fix in WebIDL. We should allow getters and setters for attributes to accept different IDL types... Yeah, that has come up a couple of times now. Filed https://www.w3.org/Bug

Re: [whatwg] Make the files attribute of the input element writable

2012-12-15 Thread Boris Zbarsky
On 12/15/12 8:39 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote: myFileInput.files = [ablob, afile, anotherblob, new Blob(["foo"])]; There's no way to express that in WebIDL, but I think that's a bug we should fix in WebIDL. We should allow getters and setters for attributes to accept different IDL types... -Bor

Re: [whatwg] Make the files attribute of the input element writable

2012-12-15 Thread Jonas Sicking
On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 9:11 AM, Ian Hickson wrote: > On Wed, 5 Dec 2012, Victor Costan wrote: >> >> There was a thread on this mailing list discussing making it possible to >> set the file data behind an element. >> http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2012-May/thread.html#36140 >>

Re: [whatwg] Make the files attribute of the input element writable

2012-12-07 Thread Victor Costan
On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 12:11 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: > On Wed, 5 Dec 2012, Victor Costan wrote: >> >> There was a thread on this mailing list discussing making it possible to >> set the file data behind an element. >> http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2012-May/thread.html#36140 >

Re: [whatwg] Make the files attribute of the input element writable

2012-12-05 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 5 Dec 2012, Victor Costan wrote: > > There was a thread on this mailing list discussing making it possible to > set the file data behind an element. > http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2012-May/thread.html#36140 > > The thread seems to have died down due to insufficie

[whatwg] Make the files attribute of the input element writable

2012-12-05 Thread Victor Costan
Dear WHATWG, There was a thread on this mailing list discussing making it possible to set the file data behind an element. http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2012-May/thread.html#36140 The thread seems to have died down due to insufficient applications for the proposal. I would