Re: Discussion of File API at TPAC in Lyon

On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 5:54 PM, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 5:18 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc> wrote:
>>> Maybe using a global object is better since we don't really want these
>>> functions to appear on documents created using XMLHttpRequest,
>>> DOMParser, etc.
>>>
>>> Quick, someone suggest a name, whoever comes up with one first wins a
>>> beer for next TPAC :)
>>
>> I think that whoever suggested URL already wins that beer.  ^_^
>
> I guess me and Anne will have to split it then, since he proposed
> using the URL constructor, and I said that I didn't like using the
> constructor but suggested putting the functions on the URL interface
> object. Though it's quite possible that someone beat me to that
> proposal, in which case they better speak up or loose a beer forever
> :-)
>
> The downside of using URL though is that both Firefox and IE, and I
> think Chrome too, seems to be ready to ship
> createObjectURL/revokeObjectURL very soon, much sooner than the URL
> object will be fully specified. That means that if we set up the URL
> interface object for createObjectURL/revokeObjectURL, then it'll be
> harder to feature detect support for the "real" URL object.

Only marginally.  There'll be properties on URL that can be
existence-tested for in the future.

~TJ

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