Re: New draft of FileWriter API posted

On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 7:01 PM, Eric Uhrhane <ericu@google.com> wrote:

> > Thanks for posting this.  Some questions:
> > 1-  What is the proposed way to get a FileWriter from an <INPUT
> > type="saveas"> element?
>
> I was thinking of something like:
>
> var writer = document.forms['downloadData']['fileChooser'].fileWriter;
>
> If we make it parallel to the file reader API, that would be an array
> rather than a single FileWriter, but it's not clear to me that you'll
> ever actually want to browse for more than one save location in a
> single operation.


Hi Eric,

I've come up with another question...how do you plan about how to obtain a
FileWriterSync instance in a worker context?

As for obtaining a FileWriter in a worker context, probably what user should
do is get an instance from the document's SaveAs input element and send it
to the worker by calling postMessage()?

Thanks,