Re: [FileAPI] createObjectURL isReusable proposal

On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 4:40 PM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Feb 2012, Arun Ranganathan wrote:
>>
>> 2. Could we modify things so that img.src = blob is a reality? Mainly,
>> if we modify things for the *most common* use case, that could be useful
>> in mitigating some of our fears. Hixie, is this possible?
>
> Anything's possible, but I think the pain here would far outweigh the
> benefits. There would be some really hard questions to answer, too (e.g.
> what would innerHTML return? If you copied such an image from a
> contentEditable section and pasted it lower down the same section, would
> it still have the image?).

We could define that it returns an empty src attribute, which would
break the copy/paste example. That's the same behavior you'd get with
someone revoking the URL upon load anyway.

/ Jonas

Received on Tuesday, 14 February 2012 04:57:36 UTC