Re: [FileAPI] Length of the opaque string for blob URLs

On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 6:27 AM, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 16 Dec 2011 12:21:34 +0100, Arun Ranganathan <
> aranganathan@mozilla.com> wrote:
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>> Adrian: I'm willing to relax this.  I suppose it *is* inconsistent to
>> insist on 36 chars when we don't insist on UUID.  But I suspect when it
>> comes time to making blob: a registered protocol (it was discussed on the
>> IETF/URI listserv), the lack of MUSTs will be a sticking point.  We'll take
>> that as it comes, though :)
>>
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> I do not really see why Chrome cannot simply use UUID as well. It's not
> exactly rocket science. It seems that is the only sticking point to just
> having the same type of URLs across the board.


The consistency and predictability of having UUIDs across the board could
prove useful.


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