Re: File API: File's name property

Well, https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=23138 is to make the 'type' attribute a ByteString.  Is that your request here for the name attribute as well?

It wouldn't be wise to restrict '/' or '\' or try to delve too deep into platform land BUT the FileSystem API introduces directory syntax which might make being lax a fly in the ointment for later.


On Aug 29, 2013, at 10:48 AM, Anne van Kesteren wrote:

> As currently specified File's name property seems to be a code unit
> sequence. In zip archives the resource's path is a byte sequence. I
> don't really know what popular file systems do. Given that a File has
> to be transmitted over the wire now and then, including it's name
> property value, a code unit sequence seems like the wrong type. It
> would at least lead to information loss which I'm not sure is
> acceptable if we can prevent it (or at least make it more obvious that
> it is going on, by doing a transformation early on).
> 
> We may also want to restrict "\" and "/" to leave room for using these
> objects in path-based contexts later.
> 
> 
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Received on Tuesday, 3 September 2013 14:03:54 UTC