- From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2013 18:51:45 -0800
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: WHATWG <whatwg@whatwg.org>
On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote: > > On Wed, 2 Oct 2013, Jonas Sicking wrote: >> Hixie wrote: >> > >> > That's not the only alternative. For example, a third alternative is >> > that the user's selection (e.g. a directory) is returned quickly, not >> > pre-expanded, and then any uploading happens in the background with >> > the author script doing the walk and uploading the files. >> >> It's unclear to me what you are proposing here. Can you elaborate? > > On Wed, 2 Oct 2013, Glenn Maynard wrote: >> >> The same thing I did, I think: an API to navigate the directory tree as >> needed, and to never greedily recursing the directory tree. > > On Wed, 2 Oct 2013, Jonas Sicking wrote: >> >> Unfortunately that's forbidden by current specs. > > Right, my point is that this would be a new API. > > I've filed this bug to track this feature request; if there are multiple > implementors interested in this, I can add it: > > https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=23988 Given that both Chrome and Firefox is shipping directory-upload support, I would say that there are multiple vendors interested. At least if 2 counts as multiple. / Jonas
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