Re: Discussion of File API at TPAC in Lyon

On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 22:06:59 +0100, Arun Ranganathan  
<aranganathan@mozilla.com> wrote:
> If we're going to keep both functions around, then it's honestly not  
> *that much* of an improvement to move them from window* to document*, is  
> it?

Polluting the global object less is always a win.


> In this case, since we're going to add something to HTMLImageElement,  
> why not leave createObjectURL and revokeObject URL well alone as part of  
> window*?

These seem like separate issues.


> So it looks like we'll add a [Supplemental] to interfaces like  
> HTMLImageElement allowing them to take a "src" object, and we can then  
> define *that* src object to accomodate Stream and Blob use case  
> scenarios.  I'm amenable to first introducing that extension to  
> HTMLImageElement in File API if everyone else is :)

It is probably better to do this directly in HTML5.


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Received on Friday, 12 November 2010 11:02:32 UTC