- From: Olli Pettay <Olli.Pettay@helsinki.fi>
- Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 21:31:47 +0300
- To: J Ross Nicoll <jrn@jrn.me.uk>
- CC: whatwg@lists.whatwg.org, "public-webapps@w3.org >> WebApps WG" <public-webapps@w3.org>
On 5/11/10 11:43 AM, J Ross Nicoll wrote: > Looking at http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-FileAPI-20091117/#dfn-file Note, discussion about FileAPI should happen in WebApps WG mailing list. > > There doesn't appear to be anyway of retrieving creation date, > modification date or size of the file. You can get the size from Blob. And File extends Blob. -Olli Could I suggest adding attributes > creationDate, modificationDate and size to provide this information? > > For a use case; we're working an a student coursework submission system, > where they'll be able to drag and drop files. It would be useful to show > the student details of the file they're uploading (for example, > modification date is useful to confirm they're uploading the most recent > version). We do actually see a fairly large number of mis-uploads with > the existing upload system, and are hoping exposing more information > during the upload (rather than once the file is received) will help. >
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