Media File System API

2012-05-11 Thread Steve VanDeBogart
I work on Chrome at Google and a few of us have been working on a proposal to enable access to local media files - http://goo.gl/L8zXT . A number of different ideas [1, 2, 3] have floated around to address this issue so it seems there is interest but no consensus on the right approach. We have

Re: Bug Tracking for the File* specs [Was: Re: Bug in file system Api specification]

2012-02-27 Thread Steve VanDeBogart
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 4:05 AM, Arthur Barstow art.bars...@nokia.comwrote: Hi Brona, For mostly historical reasons, WebApps' File* specs still use Tracker rather than Bugzilla (and IIRC, Arun also uses the list archive as well as the spec itself to track issues for the File API spec):

Re: Bug Tracking for the File* specs [Was: Re: Bug in file system Api specification]

2012-02-27 Thread Steve VanDeBogart
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 5:04 PM, Steve VanDeBogart vand...@google.comwrote: On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 4:05 AM, Arthur Barstow art.bars...@nokia.comwrote: Hi Brona, For mostly historical reasons, WebApps' File* specs still use Tracker rather than Bugzilla (and IIRC, Arun also uses the list

Re: [File API] Other sources for Blob data.

2011-12-02 Thread Steve VanDeBogart
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 8:58 AM, Glenn Maynard gl...@zewt.org wrote: On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 4:09 PM, Steve VanDeBogart vand...@google.comwrote: In several thought experiments using the File API I've wanted to create a Blob for data that I haven't materialized. It seems that a way to create

Re: [File API] Other sources for Blob data.

2011-12-02 Thread Steve VanDeBogart
On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 1:07 PM, Glenn Maynard gl...@zewt.org wrote: On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Steve VanDeBogart vand...@google.comwrote: interface BlobDataProvider : EventTarget { void getSize(BlobDataProviderResult result); void getDataSlice(long long start, long long end

[File API] Other sources for Blob data.

2011-12-01 Thread Steve VanDeBogart
In several thought experiments using the File API I've wanted to create a Blob for data that I haven't materialized. It seems that a way to create a blob backed by an arbitrary data source would be useful. In particular, I would like to see a blob constructor that takes a URL and size as well as