- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2010 11:36:36 -0400
- To: lmarcetic@foi.hr
- CC: public-webapps@w3.org
On 10/4/10 7:09 AM, lmarcetic@foi.hr wrote: > * read local files, > * show them in web documents, and > * manipulate them > > FileAPI does the first thing, and partly the third one. The problem is > that it, as I understand it, loads the complete file into memory > (readAsBinaryString) which is inconvenient for big files, such as video. http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/FileAPI/#url does what you want, right? You can experiment with this in Firefox 4 following the documentation at https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/window.createBlobURL -Boris
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