Re: File constructor

On Jul 15, 2013, at 8:01 PM, Anne van Kesteren wrote:

> So exposing FormData's contents came up again.


Can you send me a pointer to that discussion, so I can plug into it?  


> The natural model is to
> have FormData be map of string to either a string or File object. This
> is very much equivalent to exposing a constructor for File to create a
> Blob with a filename. I was told people objected to that in the past.
> What were the objections and are they still relevant?
> 


Here's a bug with references to the "objections"( which were really wondering what the right use case is): https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=20887

Sounds like mapping FormData to a File hasn't come up yet.

-- A*

Received on Tuesday, 16 July 2013 03:37:48 UTC