- From: Eric U <ericu@google.com>
- Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:53:20 -0800
- To: Charles Pritchard <chuck@visc.us>
- Cc: "public-webapps@w3.org" <public-webapps@w3.org>
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 1:29 PM, Charles Pritchard <chuck@visc.us> wrote: > Modern operating systems have efficient mechanisms to send a signal when a watched file or directory is modified. > > File and FileEntry have a last modified date-- currently we must poll entries to see if the modification date changes. That works completely fine in practice, but it doesn't give us a chance to exploit the efficiency of some operating systems in notifying applications about file updates. > > So as a strawman: a File.onupdated event handler may be useful. It seems like it would be most useful if the File or FileEntry points to a file outside the sandbox defined by the FileSystem spec. Does any browser currently supply such a thing? Chrome currently implements this [with FileEntry] only for ChromeOS components that are implemented as extensions. Does any browser let you have a File outside the sandbox *and* update its modification time? If you're dealing only with FileEntries inside the sandbox, there are already more efficient ways to tell yourself that you've changed something.
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