Re: [whatwg] Forms: input type=file and directory tree picking

2013-08-04 Thread Jonas Sicking
On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Glenn Maynard gl...@zewt.org wrote: On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 11:15 AM, Jonathan Watt jw...@jwatt.org wrote: In my prototype implementation it took around 30 seconds to build the FileList for a directory of 200,000 files with a top end SSD; so depending on what

Re: [whatwg] Forms: input type=file and directory tree picking

2013-08-04 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 2:47 AM, Jonas Sicking jo...@sicking.cc wrote: We can't do what you are suggesting for a plain input type=file multiple since there's already a defined API for that, and that API only exposes a .files property in the DOM. Sure we can; we can always add to that API,

Re: [whatwg] Forms: input type=file and directory tree picking

2013-08-04 Thread Jonas Sicking
On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 4:54 PM, Glenn Maynard gl...@zewt.org wrote: On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 2:47 AM, Jonas Sicking jo...@sicking.cc wrote: We can't do what you are suggesting for a plain input type=file multiple since there's already a defined API for that, and that API only exposes a .files