RE: [FileAPI] Latest Revision of Editor's Draft

On Tue, 3 Nov 2009, Adrian Bateman wrote:
> > [filedata:]
> 
> There is a limit on the size of data-uris in IE8 (32K I think). I expect 
> addressing this will be a higher priority than a new handler but I agree 
> that copying around large strings is problematic.

One of the main use cases Google has in mind here is local preview of 
images and videos. Given a 5MB image file, we're talking about a 6MB URL. 
With a 1GB video, we're talking about a 1.3GB URL. Even if the 6MB URL is 
feasible...

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