- From: Arun Ranganathan <arun@mozilla.com>
- Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:21:30 -0700
- To: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- CC: Web Applications Working Group WG <public-webapps@w3.org>, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
Maciej Stachowiak wrote: > > On Oct 17, 2008, at 11:46 AM, Arun Ranganathan wrote: > >> All, >> >> Maceij wrote: >>>> >>>>> [1] >>>>> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/member-webapps/2008OctDec/0010.html >>>>> >>>>> [2] >>>>> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2008OctDec/0047.html >>>>> >>>>> [3] >>>>> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2008JulSep/0186.html >>>>> >>>>> [4] >>>>> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2008JulSep/0387.html >>>>> >>>> >>>> Were you referring to [3] above? I didn't actually realize that Apple >>>> was proposing that as a v1 for the FileUpload spec. Apologies for >>>> that, it was certainly not intended to be ignored. >>> >>> Yes, [3] was our intended proposal for v1 of the file upload spec. I >>> don't recall hearing any objection to publishing that as v1. >>> >>> Arun did not ever respond to that email thread, and your only >>> comment was "This sounds like a great idea to me." >>> >> 1. Again, I apologize for embarking on a direction that wasn't what >> Apple envisioned, but your intention to make [3] above a "v1" in lieu >> of the a more expansive spec. wasn't clear to me. Also, I didn't >> respond to the thread because Jonas' post affirming that it "... >> sounds like a great idea..." was sufficient. Thus, I took the >> proposal as a key component in a more expansive spec., but not as a >> v1 spec. in and of itself. > > Would you be against making it a v1 spec in and of itself? Note that I'll be taking out a lot of things, including FileDialog and synchronous APIs (as discussed). But I am against dropping asynchronous i/o APIs altogether in v1 without a good technical reason. The Blob API seemed like a workable strawperson for the WG, but you had technical nits. Can you send us the technical commentary on Blob? The same goes for others who express reservation about these APIs. -- A*
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