- From: Eric Uhrhane <ericu@google.com>
- Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2011 13:22:12 -0700
- To: Glenn Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>
- Cc: public-webapps@w3.org
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Glenn Maynard <glenn@zewt.org> wrote: > File objects should have a "readOnly" property, indicating whether write > permission is granted by the user. Files returned from <input> elements > should, by default, set it. Constructing a FileWriter using a File with its > readOnly property set should throw an exception. Are you thinking of FileEntry? File objects are always immutable, and there's currently no way to get from a File to a FileWriter. Having an immutable flag on a FileEntry would make sense, but as there's currently no API to get a FileWriter outside of the FileSystem [which has no immutable files], there's no rush to put it in--it can wait for an API expansion that would let you get such a thing. > Later, it would be good to also have an attribute on <input> to allow > opening files for write. For example, <input type=file file=write> to ask > for write permission (setting readOnly if only read permission was granted, > eg. with an "open read-only" checkbox), and <input type=file file=create> to > also ask the browser to show a "Save As" dialog instead of an "Open" dialog. We discussed this a while back, and people generally preferred something like FileSaver instead of markup. Eric
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