Re: Updates to FileAPI from Glenn Maynard on 2010-12-22 (public-webapps@w3.org from October to December 2010)

From: Glenn Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 19:32:19 -0500
To: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
Cc: public-webapps@w3.org
Message-ID: <AANLkTikrhq8GS_d+O_rSmjUW+1pXZC-OtCOt4b4g8XwZ@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 7:17 PM, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc> wrote:
> The solution is to instead pass the Blob object to the worker and
> inside the worker call URL.createObjectURL(blob). That way you get a
> URL whose lifetime is tied to that of the worker.
>
> But yes, if you've lost track of the Blob and just have the URL that
> isn't possible, so don't loose track of your blobs :-)

Yeah.  Sorry for the noise--still wrapping my head around how all
these new APIs fit together.  :)

-- 
Glenn Maynard

Received on Wednesday, 22 December 2010 00:32:52 UTC