- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 04:15:01 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Aaron Boodman <aa@google.com>
- Cc: "Web API WG (public)" <public-webapi@w3.org>, Charles McCathieNevile <chaals@opera.com>
On Wed, 7 May 2008, Aaron Boodman wrote: > Charles wrote: > > Opera has a proposal for a specification that would revive (and > > supersede) the file upload API that has been lingering so long as a > > work item. I would echo the other comments people have made regarding the security model being the important aspect of this kind of area. > The Gears team has also been putting together a proposal for file access > which overlaps in some ways with Opera's, but is also orthogonal in some > ways: > > http://code.google.com/p/google-gears/wiki/BlobWebAPIPropsal I do like the general approach here. I especially like the way that it combines the Mozilla extensions with a generic mechanism that applies across multiple APIs. I'm not sure I like the way that the bytes are made accessible, but that's a minor detail really. (In particular, I'd like to see plain text APIs to treat a blob according to a particular encoding.) This seems like it would be something we may want defined in a small spec and then used by many others (like progress events) -- one spec to define Blob, and then the other specs to use it (like XHR and HTML5/WF2). Do we have the resources to have someone champion this spec? -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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