Re: Updates to FileAPI

----- Original Message -----
> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 1:28 AM, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
> wrote:
> > On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 08:43:21 +0100, Arun Ranganathan
> > <aranganathan@mozilla.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Jian Li is right. I'm fixing this in the editor's draft.
> >
> > Why does lastModified even return a DOMString? Can it not just
> > return a
> > Date? That seems much nicer.
> 
> Probably because WebIDL doesn't (didn't?) have a date type. That's a
> silly reason in the first place, and heycam is fixing (has fixed?) it
> in the second place.


I agree that a readonly Date object returned for lastModified is one way to go, but considered it overkill for the feature.  If you think a Date object provides greater utility to simply get at the lastModified data, I'm entirely amenable to putting that in the editor's draft.

-- A*

Received on Thursday, 11 November 2010 16:33:38 UTC