- From: Travis Leithead <travis.leithead@microsoft.com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 18:44:54 +0000
- To: Adam Barth <w3c@adambarth.com>
- CC: "robert@ocallahan.org" <robert@ocallahan.org>, "public-media-capture@w3.org" <public-media-capture@w3.org>, Anant Narayanan <anant@mozilla.com>
> From: Adam Barth [mailto:w3c@adambarth.com] > > On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 9:54 AM, Travis Leithead > <travis.leithead@microsoft.com> wrote: > > From: rocallahan@gmail.com [mailto:rocallahan@gmail.com] On Behalf Of > > Robert O'Callahan > >> And lifetime problems. It may be valuable to have a dedicated API that > covers exactly the resources we have JS object representations for; I think > that's as general as we can get without introducing the lifetime problems. > > > > There seems to be a lot of concerns about lifetime problems. Can you > elaborate on this? I would expect "lifetime problems" to plague all users of > createObjectURL (such as FileAPI), which is one reason for the current > behavior of defaulting to "autoRevoke" = true in > http://www.w3.org/TR/FileAPI/#creating-revoking. Do you have another > concern? > > Interesting. I wasn't aware of autoRevoke. Does anyone implement that? IE10 implements a variation of this, although somewhat unfortunately, the default is reversed (e.g., you have to opt-in to "oneTimeUse" [1] instead of having it be the default). [1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh972897(v=vs.85)
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