On Thu, 13 Sep 2012 23:58:42 +0200, Ian Hickson <i...@hixie.ch> wrote:
However, both exposing the hiearchy and flattening it have all kinds of
risks. It's possible for the user to accidentally expose his entire
computer's hard drive without realising it. On some systems (including at
least modern Mac OS and Linux OSes, not sure about Windows), it's
possible
to have hard-link loops. On some systems, it's possible to drag special
directories like "..", and it's not clear what that would mean. When the
user drags files from multiple parts of the file system (e.g. from a
Windows virtual folder), it's not clear what parts of the path we should
expose -- even exposing just the common parts can expose sensitive
information like the profile path if one file is in the user's profile
and
another is not.
For the record, these are blocking concerns for Opera.
--
Simon Pieters
Opera Software
