- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>
- Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 16:51:42 +0100
- To: Glenn Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>
- Cc: Arun Ranganathan <arun@mozilla.com>, WebApps WG <public-webapps@w3.org>
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 4:46 PM, Glenn Maynard <glenn@zewt.org> wrote: > All constructing a File does is give a name (and date) to a Blob. It > doesn't create an association to an on-disk file, and shouldn't be > restricted to filenames the local platform's filesystem can represent. Yes, but it can be submitted to a server so it has to be transformed at some point. It seems way better to do the transformation early so what you see in client-side JavaScript is similar to what you'd see in Node.js. >> Given that the URL parser treats them identically, we should treat >> them identically everywhere else too. > > URL parsing does lots of weird things that shouldn't be spread to the rest > of the platform. File.name and URL parsing are completely different things, > and filenames on non-Windows systems can contain backslashes. All the more reason to do something with it to prevent down-level bugs. -- http://annevankesteren.nl/
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