Re: Call for Consensus: a new WD of the File Upload spec

Sam,

> I don't think we should include synchronous access to File data 
> provided by:
>   DOMString          getDataAsText(in DOMString encoding) raises(FileException);
>   DOMString          getDataAsBase64()
>                                         raises(FileException);
>   DOMString          getDataAsBinary()
>                                         raises(FileException);
>   DOMString          getAsDataURL()
> 										raises(FileException);
>
The only real change I made to the text from the "old" text of the spec. 
was to add in requirements [1] to which I didn't get much feedback ;-) 
but that's ok.  Mozilla's nsIDOMFile behaves synchronously, so I kept in 
the section with such methods.  I'm not *super* opinionated on this and 
am not sure that this should *prevent* publishing -- could we publish 
what we have and then discuss?  I'll keep making changes before the 
moratorium so we have something more substantive to discuss, but FWIW:

>  I would propose an asynchronous API, perhaps like the one proposed 
> for 
> Blobs http://code.google.com/p/gears/wiki/BlobWebAPIPropsal#Reading_Blob_Data, 
> instead.

I agree and will add this (and have been meaning to).

-- A*

[1] 
http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/FileUpload/publish/FileUpload.xhtml#requirements