- From: Darin Fisher <darin@chromium.org>
- Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:36:26 -0800
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 11:04 PM, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote: > On Thu, 14 Jan 2010, Darin Fisher wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 12:10 PM, David Levin <levin at google.com> wrote: > > > > > > It seems like it the method should be toBlob. > > > > > > > This doesn't address my concern that you won't know the mime type of > > > > the blob returned. > > > > > > This makes a good case to move the "readonly attrbiute DOMString type" > > > from File to Blob. > > > > I like this suggestion. It seems reasonable for a Blob, which is just a > > handle to data, to have an associated media type. > > What type should a blob have if it is the result of slicing another file? > > I had the same thought after sending this ;-) A slicing operation that changes the size of the file should probably clear the type field or set it to application/octet-stream. Perhaps Blob.type should be settable in some cases? -Darin -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20100115/0ddc9113/attachment.htm>
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