Re: Sandboxed Filesystem use cases? (was Re: Moving File API: Directories and System API to Note track?)

2012-09-26 Thread Eric U
Asking about use cases that can be served by a filesystem API, but not by IDB, is reasonable [and I'll respond to it below], but it misses a lot of the point. The users I've talked to like the FS API because it's a simple interface that everyone already understands, that's powerful enough to

Sandboxed Filesystem use cases? (was Re: Moving File API: Directories and System API to Note track?)

2012-09-25 Thread Maciej Stachowiak
On Sep 25, 2012, at 10:20 AM, James Graham jgra...@opera.com wrote: In addition, this would be the fourth storage API that we have tried to introduce to the platform in 5 years (localStorage, WebSQL, IndexedDB being the other three), and the fifth in total. Of the four APIs excluding this