On Tue, 30 Jun 2009, Olli Pettay wrote: > > File API should probably have some way to get only parts of the file. > getAsXXX(long long offset, long long length). Then uploading huge files > could be split and decoding video (or something like that) in JS might become > possible. > This is something we need for XHR too > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=496533 I'd rather just have an API that lets you split a File into a sequence<FileData> (where FileData is what File inherits from) of equally sized chunks, or something like that, than something that lets you get chunks out in particular forms. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'Received on Tuesday, 30 June 2009 10:45:26 GMT
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