- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 17:00:32 +0200
- To: "Arun Ranganathan" <arun@mozilla.com>
- Cc: public-webapps <public-webapps@w3.org>, "Arthur Barstow" <art.barstow@nokia.com>, "Adam Barth" <abarth@gmail.com>, "Jonas Sicking" <jonas@sicking.cc>
On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 16:45:04 +0200, Arun Ranganathan <arun@mozilla.com> wrote: > On 10/18/10 10:14 AM, Anne van Kesteren wrote: >> we design it in a generic way so that it also works for Stream objects? > > This would be a good idea; this was noted as part of the issues [1]. > > Is your suggestion to have a generic method (with a better name) that > takes Streams or Blobs as arguments? Do you have a suggestion for > signature or method name? I did not come further than createURL or createURLFromObject. However, if we get URL objects (or maybe WebURL to prevent clashes) tying it to that makes a lot of sense to me. >> Otherwise we will get createStreamURL as well which seems kind of >> unnecessary. Maybe even better, can we somehow converge this with the >> URL specification Adam Barth was working on? So you can do new >> URL(Blob) rather than having more methods on Window? > > OK, that's engineering for maximum use cases, but not a bad idea on the > whole. However last I checked, the URL API was a proposal as a Google > doc[2]. Does it live somewhere more permanent? No, not yet, but I suspect it would not be a problem for Adam to make this into a Working Draft. > Implementations are already in circulation that have *.createBlobURL > which leads me to: > >> Also, is there some kind of implementation summary available regarding >> the File API specifications? With what is shipping prefixed and what is >> shipping without a prefix? We are interested in supporting this too in >> the distant future. > > No, but there should be. I think it's Firefox nightlies and Chromium > nightlies for now. Firefox isn't using a prefix on the method. I would prefer it if createBlobURL and co were prefixed. Everything else is probably stable enough. > -- A* > [1] > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2010OctDec/0083.html > [2] > https://docs.google.com/document/edit?id=1r_VTFKApVOaNIkocrg0z-t7lZgzisTuGTXkdzAk4gLU&hl=en&pli=1# -- Anne van Kesteren http://annevankesteren.nl/
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