Re: File API - where are the missing parts?

2016-02-23 Thread Jonas Sicking
On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 10:06 AM, Joshua Bell wrote: > I'm also very interested in hearing from other browser implementers; Chrome > is in the odd position of having made investments in related areas > (FileSystem API and FileWriter API) that did not see adoption in other >

Re: File API - where are the missing parts?

2016-02-23 Thread Alexander Schmitz
> > * Should permissions persist? If you're working in an editor and reload the > > tab, being hit with a flurry of permission prompts is less than ideal. But > > if you visit it again in a day or a year? And, similar to the "template" > > case above, what if you use a web-based editor to

Re: File API - where are the missing parts?

2016-02-23 Thread Florian Bösch
On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 7:06 PM, Joshua Bell wrote: > On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 7:12 AM, Florian Bösch wrote: > >> On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 2:48 AM, Jonas Sicking wrote: >> >>> Is the last bullet here really accurate? How can you use existing

Re: File API - where are the missing parts?

2016-02-23 Thread Jonas Sicking
On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 7:12 AM, Florian Bösch wrote: > On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 2:48 AM, Jonas Sicking wrote: >> >> Is the last bullet here really accurate? How can you use existing APIs to >> listen to file modifications? > > I have not tested this on all

Re: File API - where are the missing parts?

2016-02-23 Thread Joshua Bell
Thanks for starting this thread, Florian. I'm in broad agreement. On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 7:12 AM, Florian Bösch wrote: > On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 2:48 AM, Jonas Sicking wrote: > >> Is the last bullet here really accurate? How can you use existing APIs to >>

Re: File API - where are the missing parts?

2016-02-23 Thread Florian Bösch
On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 2:48 AM, Jonas Sicking wrote: > Is the last bullet here really accurate? How can you use existing APIs to > listen to file modifications? > I have not tested this on all UAs, but in Google Chrome what you can do is to set an interval to check a

Re: File API - where are the missing parts?

2016-02-22 Thread Jonas Sicking
On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 3:32 AM, Florian Bösch wrote: > > *What this covers* > >- Read one or many files in their entirety in one go (in python that >would be open('foobar').read()) >- Save a completed binary string in its entirety in one go to the >download