Re: [File System APIs] If one is good, then two must be better?

On Feb 5, 2014, at 6:51 AM, Sebastian Kippe wrote:

> For what it’s worth, we’re currently building a mobile app for use with both Cordova and Web browsers.
> 
> The main use case of our app is caching large video files and playing them back directly from the filesystem. So filesystem URLs are a critical feature there.
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> Other than that, the callback-based approach of the Google proposal let us end up in callback hell right from the start, so we wrapped the whole API in promises as best as we could, just to make it usable for our app developers. In that department, Mozilla’s promises-based proposal might be much cleaner and easier to work with.


This is really useful feedback :-)  Specifics about the API as it develops would be really helpful as well.

-- A* 

Received on Thursday, 6 February 2014 02:47:00 UTC