- From: Adrian Bateman <adrianba@microsoft.com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:52:04 +0000
- To: "Web Applications Working Group WG (public-webapps@w3.org)" <public-webapps@w3.org>
- CC: Feras Moussa <ferasm@microsoft.com>
At TPAC [1,2] I described our proposal for adding an isReusable flag to createObjectURL. A common pattern we have seen is the need for a blob URL for a single use (for example, loading into an <img> element) and then revoking the URL. This requires a fair amount of boilerplate code to handle the load/error events. createObjectURL is modified as follows: static DOMString createObjectURL(Blob blob, [optional] bool isReusable); The value of isReusable defaults to true if it is not supplied and this results in the behaviour documented for File API today. However, if you supply false for the flag then the first dereference of the URL revokes it. This means that you can do something like: imgElement.src = URL.createObjectURL(blob,false) and not worry about having to call URL.revokeObjectURL to release the Blob. We have implemented this in experimental form in IE10 preview builds and it works well. There seemed to be a fair amount of support at TPAC and we're hoping this will be adopted in the File API spec. Thanks, Adrian. [1] http://www.w3.org/2011/11/01-webapps-minutes.html#item02 [2] http://pages.adrianba.net/w3c/FilesAndStreams.pdf
Received on Wednesday, 14 December 2011 02:20:16 UTC