- From: <piranna@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 12:01:20 +0200
- To: Arthur Barstow <art.barstow@nokia.com>
- Cc: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>, Webapps WG <public-webapps@w3.org>
>> Actually, the response in [2] says that we should clarify in the spec >> that files, blobs and filelists are stored "by value" rather than "by >> reference". This is not a normative change since the spec already >> defines this behavior. However the behavior is defined somewhat >> indirectly which means that it'd make sense to clarify it explicitly. > > > Hi Jonas - ok. Would you or one of the other Editors please propose text to > address this comment so piranna can review it (or check in fix and then > provide the URL of the changeset)? > Since it seems that definitely expected behaviour is that both File and Blob and Filelist objects remain the status and content they had when they were inserted inside the IndexedDB database (unluckily for me, because I believed and needed to store live user filesystem objects :-( ), I think saying explicitly that "a copy of the File, FileList or Blob objects data must be done (being this copied data stored directly inside the IndexedDB database or in a hidden folder and later referenced, being whatever used method just an implementation detail transparent for the IndexedDB API user)" would be enough. -- "Si quieres viajar alrededor del mundo y ser invitado a hablar en un monton de sitios diferentes, simplemente escribe un sistema operativo Unix." – Linus Tordvals, creador del sistema operativo Linux
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