- From: SULLIVAN, BRYAN L (ATTCINW) <BS3131@att.com>
- Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 07:39:24 -0700
- To: "Device APIs and Policy Working Group WG" <public-device-apis@w3.org>
Here is some input to the File API requirements for next week: Re "should provide access to a temporary storage location (a form of /tmp directory)": There should be additional storage locations ("root locations" as in BONDI), e.g. "home", "documents", "application data". Having a small set of conventional filesystem locations such as this will greatly simplify storage of application data for different purposes, by avoiding the need to (a) detect the platform type and (b) search for locations that can be written to within the filesystem applicable to the specific platform. Vendors can adapt such generic locations to the host platform much more readily than the thousands of developers that would need to figure this out on their own. I recommend one new requirement: "MAY enable reading and setting file access rights, e.g. owner and permissions, as supported by the filesystem.". The reference to [FILE-UPLOAD] is not the current version (at least the version listed on the Webapps PubStatus page). References: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-file-upload-20061018 Latest listed on PubStatus page: http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/FileUpload/publish/FileUpload.html Best regards, Bryan Sullivan | AT&T
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