Re: [w3c/filesystem-api] Is this spec deprecated? (#8)

AFAICT (someone correct me if I'm wrong) but it looks like `webkitEntries` and `webkitGetAsEntry` (aka Entries API) were a one-off implemented for compatibility reasons, hence why [MDN marks it as non-standard](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/File_and_Directory_Entries_API). That would also explain why we kept the `webkit` prefix; no sense removing the prefix if nobody wanted to move forward on the API.

Also Entries doesn't have much to do with "fileysystem" per se; it's fairly limited to scenarios of e.g. dragging-and-dropping files into an input element.

There's also the [directory upload proposal](https://wicg.github.io/directory-upload/proposal.html) by @aliams which is not implemented by any browser yet.

I think there's a desire from web developers to have some kind of file system access, but it'd be good to nail down what the requirements are, to see if any of the existing proposals even cover the target use cases. E.g. from talking with @mikeal I've heard that one much-desired feature is a streaming interface to and from the filesystem, which could arguably be added to IDB rather than this spec or any similar filesystem spec. @feross are you looking for something similar for WebTorrent?

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