On May 11, 2010, at 3:43 AM, J Ross Nicoll wrote: > Looking at http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-FileAPI-20091117/#dfn-file > > There doesn't appear to be anyway of retrieving creation date, modification > date or size of the file. Could I suggest adding attributes creationDate, > modificationDate and size to provide this information? > > For a use case; we're working an a student coursework submission system, > where they'll be able to drag and drop files. It would be useful to show the > student details of the file they're uploading (for example, modification date > is useful to confirm they're uploading the most recent version). We do > actually see a fairly large number of mis-uploads with the existing upload > system, and are hoping exposing more information during the upload (rather > than once the file is received) will help.
I was just going to ask the same question. My use case is for a progress bar. As I parse a file, it would be nice to have a progress bar based upon the file size and how much has been parsed.
