Re: New FileAPI Draft | was Re: FileAPI feedback

On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 1:47 AM, Arun Ranganathan <arun@mozilla.com> wrote:

> 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?


Sorry, I was told on the HTML5 list that this is where network downloads and
archive support stuff belonged.

It certain seems like a good fit to me.


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