- From: Arve Bersvendsen <arveb@opera.com>
- Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:02:32 +0100
- To: "Eric Uhrhane" <ericu@google.com>, public-device-apis@w3.org
On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 22:32:11 +0100, Eric Uhrhane <ericu@google.com> wrote: > What the app sees should be a > case-insensitive, case-preserving filesystem. That's easy to implement > on top of the most-commonly-used filesystems, and not hard to emulate on > case-sensitive systems. Problems due to interactions with applications > running outside the browser should be extremely rare and minor. On case-sensitive file systems, this would leave an application unable to correctly resolve and distinguish a file system entry named 'foo' where there is another entry named 'Foo'. Without even attempting to speak for anyone else, I've had this situation occur on multiple instances when re-digitizing my old music collection: The older rip would simply have different capitalization from the newer one. -- Arve Bersvendsen Opera Software ASA, http://www.opera.com/
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