Re: File API Feedback

On Jun 19, 2009, at 10:16 , Anne van Kesteren wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Jun 2009 01:01:41 +0200, Arun Ranganathan  
> <arun@mozilla.com> wrote:
>> Ian Hickson wrote:
>>> I spoke with the developers of one of these Well-Known Web
>>> Applications, and they didn't even _mention_ the styling  
>>> difficulties
>>> of <input type=file> as one of the reasons for using Flash here.
>>
>> This feedback is extremely useful.  I, too, would like the chance to
>> speak with the developers of (that particular application) as well as
>> with other developers.
>
> Maciej said that the MobileMe developers gave pretty much the same  
> feedback:
>
>  http://krijnhoetmer.nl/irc-logs/whatwg/20090619#l-90
>
> Is it really that bad to wait with evaluating this feature until v1  
> is more widely deployed?

Given that we're still in WD, how about simply adding a note  
indicating that this feature is under scrutiny (with pointers to this  
discussion)? If it is still under scrutiny when we move to LC we can  
make a call to keep it alive, and if it makes it through LC we can  
still mark it as "at risk".

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Received on Friday, 19 June 2009 13:34:16 UTC