Re: [FileAPI] Blob.URN?

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 2:57 PM, Darin Fisher <darin@chromium.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 12:22 AM, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Darin Fisher <darin@chromium.org> wrote:
>> > Apologies if this has been discussed before, but I'm curious why URN is
>> > not
>> > a property of Blob.  It seems like it would be useful to be able to load
>> > a
>> > slice of a File.  For example, this could be used by an application to
>> > fetch
>> > all of its subresources out of a single file.
>>
>> IIRC originally it was placed on File since Blobs do not have a
>> content type. However I think there is general agreement that it
>> should be moved to Blob.
>>
>> However it would be great to be able to assign a content type to a
>> Blob. Possibly slice() could take a optional argument.
>>
>
> Adding an optional parameter to slice() sounds attractive indeed.
> BlobBuilder [1] should probably also have such an optional argument.
> -Darin
> [1] http://dev.w3.org/2009/dap/file-system/file-writer.html#the-blobbuilder-interface

That seems reasonable.  But if we move the content type and
disposition to the Blob, and can get a URL from a Blob, then File is
left with...just a name?

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