- From: Arun Ranganathan <arun@mozilla.com>
- Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2009 03:47:27 -0500
- To: Gregg Tavares <gman@google.com>
- CC: Web Applications Working Group WG <public-webapps@w3.org>
Gregg Tavares wrote: > I'd really like to contribute to this as I'm helping implement WebGL and we > need a way to get LOTS of data into WebGL. Hundreds of files per app. > > That said, there's a bunch of things I don't understand about the API > > *) Given that XMLHttpRequest is limited to a same domain policy Firefox 3.5 and Safari 4 support cross-domain XMLHttpRequest, mitigated by CORS. See, for example, http://hacks.mozilla.org/2009/07/cross-site-xmlhttprequest-with-cors/ > but the img > tag, audio tag, video tag, script tag and others are not, how do you resolve > that with the FIle API? > The File API is meant to talk to your local file system. It isn't a "network download" API, but it seems that's what you want :-). Perhaps I am misunderstanding your question? -- A*
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