Re: Discussion of File API at TPAC in Lyon

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 12:20 PM, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Dmitry Titov <dimich@chromium.org>
> wrote:
> > Thanks Michael,
> > so the proposed change is this:  window.createObjectURL ->
> > window.URL.createObjectURL
> > and it means it's also possible to do something like this:
> > var otherWindow = window.open(...)
> > otherWindow.URL.createObjectURL(...)
> > Is this correct understanding?
>
> If you do this, then the lifetime of the URL is the lifetime of the
> Document in otherWindow.
>
> Actually since at the time you're calling createObjectURL otherWindow
> still contains an about:blank document, as soon as the url passed to
> window.open is loaded, the returned URL will expire.
>

That makes perfect sense, thanks!