On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Arve Bersvendsen <arveb@opera.com> wrote: > On Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:24:13 +0100, Eric Uhrhane <ericu@google.com> wrote: > > I think you leave the realm of "corner cases" when you're talking >> about the behavior of the majority of systems on which the code can be >> expected to run. And by adding these [fairly minor, IMO] restrictions >> on filenames, your app developers don't have to write >> platform-specific code at all--they just write to the web platform. >> > > The downside to adding restrictions is that you also restrict where and how > the Filesystem/directory API can or can't be used. If your use-case is > roughly allowing Flickr to crawl your photo directory and upload at will, > you're not going to get into trouble. If, on the other hand, your use-case > is more complex (imagine something like Midnight/Norton/Total commander as a > locally installed widget), this least-common-denominator approach is going > to cause problems. Those are 2 pretty distinct use cases. Maybe both need to be supported by the API?
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