Re: [XHR2] Blobs, names and FormData

2011/7/18 Michael Nordman <michaeln@google.com>

> BlobBuilder.getFile() as a solution to this particular problem is less
> direct (and less obvious and less discoverable so less friendly). And it
> raises questions like... Is the blob data really flattened out as a file on
> the disk somewhere? If not, then getFile() is somewhat misleading. Is so, we
> may have to create actual files when we otherwise wouldn't. Where is this
> file created? When does it get deleted?
>

If these are questions, they should be answered.  My understanding is that
there's no requirement that File objects have any relationship to files on
the user's filesystem; that's a use case of the type, not its definition.

(That said, I don't have an opinion on whether the type is appropriate
here.)

-- 
Glenn Maynard