>  If the browser vendors feel like this is out of scope for their product, 
> then spending the (quite extensive)
>  effort to design a solution will be wasted. I > wouldn't want anyone on this 
> list to feel their time is wasted.

I also do not like to see W3C’s valuable time continually wasted on specifying 
functionality that has expressly been dismissed by major browser vendors. For 
example: -

https://www.w3.org/TR/geofencing/
      and
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=383125#c46

> Indeed not! I should hope nobody would feel that way. The WHATWG is a venue
> that is open to anyone willing to take part in relevant technical debate.

Then please stop censoring my posts or manufacturing chicken-and-egg 
pre-requisites for topics you are not interested in.


From: Ian Hickson [mailto:i...@hixie.ch]
Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2017 6:47 AM
To: Richard Maher; wha...@whatwg.org
Subject: Re: [whatwg] Accessing local files with JavaScript portably and 
securely

On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 3:36 PM Richard Maher 
<maher...@hotmail.com<mailto:maher...@hotmail.com>> wrote:
> The main thing that seems to be missing from this thread is any commitment
> from any browser vendors to actually support any changes in this space.

It has been my experience that browser vendors, more often than not, require at 
least a (proposed) standard before they will consider implementing a requested 
feature.

That's a different question. I was saying we should make sure the browser 
vendors care about this space at all. Requesting a specific feature be 
implemented comes much later, after use case collection and API design stages.

If the browser vendors feel like this is out of scope for their product, then 
spending the (quite extensive) effort to design a solution will be wasted. I 
wouldn't want anyone on this list to feel their time is wasted.


I would certainly not seek to stifle debate or censor someone else from having 
their say.

Indeed not! I should hope nobody would feel that way. The WHATWG is a venue 
that is open to anyone willing to take part in relevant technical debate.

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Ian Hickson

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