RE: flush() | was Re: FileSystem API Comments

2014-11-06 Thread Ali Alabbas
31, 2014 11:19 AM To: Ali Alabbas Cc: Web Applications Working Group WG Subject: flush() | was Re: FileSystem API Comments Greetings Ali! I've been thinking about the discussion of flush(), and would like to see if I can make my previous statement a bit more nuanced. It turns out that flush

flush() | was Re: FileSystem API Comments

2014-10-31 Thread Arun Ranganathan
Greetings Ali! I’ve been thinking about the discussion of flush(), and would like to see if I can make my previous statement a bit more nuanced. It turns out that flush() (in the vein of fsync/sync) is pretty useful, and after discussion with a few folks within Mozilla, I realize that it isn’t

RE: FileSystem API Comments

2014-10-22 Thread Jonathan Bond-Caron
On Tue Oct 21 09:36 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote: 1.1 Use cases (3. Audio/Photo editor with offline access or local cache for speed) * Edited files should be accessible by other client-side applications - Having the sandboxed file system share its contents between all apps

Re: FileSystem API Comments

2014-10-22 Thread David Rajchenbach-Teller
I don't see a contradiction. Each *web* app sees only files accessible from its domain (so your two apps have distinct pic.jpeg). Each *native* app has access to whatever the operating system says. Or am I missing something in your message? Cheers, David On 22/10/14 12:23, Jonathan Bond-Caron

Re: FileSystem API Comments

2014-10-22 Thread chaals
22.10.2014, 12:32, David Rajchenbach-Teller dtel...@mozilla.com: I don't see a contradiction. Each *web* app sees only files accessible from its domain (so your two apps have distinct pic.jpeg). Each *native* app has access to whatever the operating system says. There are a lot of use cases

Re: FileSystem API Comments

2014-10-22 Thread Arun Ranganathan
Ali, First, thanks for your timely comments :) I’m in the process of editing the FileSystem API. Responses inline: On Oct 21, 2014, at 4:36 PM, Ali Alabbas a...@microsoft.com wrote: 1.1 Use cases (3. Audio/Photo editor with offline access or local cache for speed) * Edited files

Re: FileSystem API Comments

2014-10-21 Thread Arthur Barstow
On 10/21/14 4:36 PM, Ali Alabbas wrote: Hello, I'm with the IE Platform team at Microsoft. We have a few comments on the latest editor's draft of the newly proposed FileSystem API [1]. I believe [1] is Arun's http://w3c.github.io/filesystem-api/Overview.html. 1.1 Use cases (3.