So, to make things difficult again -- how do we monitor progress? When I'm saving to the cloud, I want my XHR onprogress. I don't need high-fidelity progress events -- they don't even make sense when one server is copying to another, but I do need something, otherwise we're back in the dark ages of polling on a separate channel. This is an area where a MessageChannel could be handy; even an EventSource would work out, though it feels a little awkward. It's only one way, which is all that's needed, so maybe it's the right place to be looking. http://dev.w3.org/html5/eventsource/ -Charles On 11/13/11 3:24 PM, Paul Kinlan wrote: > On the subject of FileSaver, specifically window.saveAs, I have demos > that show use of "http://webintents.org/save" intent which fits work > very well and it would be up to the UA to decide if they want to offer > an interface for access to the local fileSystem. So it could either > be a cloud or local FS that the user chooses. > > > On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 10:35 PM, Charles Pritchard > <chuck@jumis.com <mailto:chuck@jumis.com>> wrote: > > On 11/10/11 3:10 PM, Greg Billock wrote: > > >> I think the Web-page-in-a-separate tab is also an >> optional aspect of Web >> intents; the browser could serve as a broker between >> the local-network >> service and the Web page. >> >> >> This is unclear but I hope we end up with something that >> provides non-tabbed (direct) interaction also. In some >> cases it may be superfluous to have a separate window >> open that denotes the service endpoint. >> >> >> >> The proposal we're working from uses "disposition=inline" to >> denote this -- that is, services can be placed within the >> visual context of the calling page. Our prototype uses an >> expansion of the service picker dialog to host that service page. > > > It seems like the anchor download attribute fills another > need. Should these proposals be wrapped up into an omnibus > package? > In my opinion, they're an extension to the very-old "target" > attribute. > > In the new Web Apps world, we're targeting FileSaver and > iframe sandbox. >
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