Re: [FileAPI] Blob.URN?

This has been discussed before, not sure what the conclusion was (if any)
http://www.mail-archive.com/public-webapps@w3.org/msg06137.html

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In order for the URN to be useful, it would have to have a mediaType
associated with it, and then there's content-disposition to think
about, which then wants a file name as well...boy, that's a lot of
baggage.  However, since these aren't really inherent properties of
the Blob, just of the way you want the browser to view the Blob, it
would seem natural to me do to something like this:

    interface Blob {
      ...
      DOMString getURN(in DOMString mediaType,
           [Optional] in DOMString contentDisposition,
           [Optional] in DOMString name);
    };

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On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 7:19 PM, Dmitry Titov <dimich@google.com> wrote:

> Blob would need a content-type for that, but it could probably easy be
> added as a property that is assignable.
>
> BTW if the Blob could have a urn and mime type, this info could be directly
> used to form the headers for the Blob when sending it in multipart form
> using FormData.
>
> Dmitry
>
> On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Darin Fisher <darin@chromium.org> wrote:
>
>> Apologies if this has been discussed before, but I'm curious why URN is
>> not a property of Blob.  It seems like it would be useful to be able to load
>> a slice of a File.  For example, this could be used by an application to
>> fetch all of its subresources out of a single file.
>>
>> -Darin
>>
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