RE: Updates to File API

On Tuesday, June 22, 2010 8:40 PM, David Levin wrote:
> I agree with you Adrian that it makes sense to let the user agent figure
> out the optimal way of implementing origin and other checks.
> 
> A logical step from that premise is that the choice/format of the
> namespace specific string should be left up to the UA as embedding
> information in there may be the optimal way for some UA's of implementing
> said checks, and it sounds like other UAs may not want to do that.

Robin outlined why that would be a problem [1]. My original feeling was that this should be left up to UAs, as you say, but I've been convinced that doing so is a race to the most complex URL scheme.

Cheers,

Adrian.

[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2009OctDec/0743.html

Received on Wednesday, 23 June 2010 03:57:54 UTC