Re: file-system-api: filename restrictions

2011-01-12 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 6:37 PM, Charles Pritchard ch...@jumis.com wrote: Those very-short length limitations are really frustrating. More so for other languages, too; 255 bytes of UTF-8 is only 85 codepoints of CJK--still a fairly long filename, but not unheard of. But, it seems long enough for

Re: file-system-api: filename restrictions

2011-01-11 Thread Eric Uhrhane
Glenn: Sorry about the slow response; I was on vacation, and am only now catching up. We've discussed these issues before, see http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-device-apis/2010Jan/0229.html for much of the initial discussion. However, you've brought up a new point that I think is

file-system-api: filename restrictions

2010-12-19 Thread Glenn Maynard
Section 8 Uniformity of interface will cause headaches for some use cases. For example, an application may want to allow the user to fill a directory with images, then output a thumbnail of each image x.jpg into a subdirectory with the same filename, thumbs/x.jpg. However, we're forbidden from