Seems like the FileTransfer API is a good candidate for the first of our old APIs to get a revamp in 2.x.
There are _tons_ of issues around this API in JIRA. Step one: write tests. On 7/26/12 10:51 AM, "Brian LeRoux" <[email protected]> wrote: >It needs to stay for now; does no harm. Looks like xhr2 basically >everywhere http://caniuse.com/xhr2 >On Jul 26, 2012 10:47 AM, "Filip Maj" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> As much as I would like to see it gone, it is a necessity at this point. >> How to upload binary files, for example? Need to make sure we cover our >> users' core use cases, binary upload being one of them. >> >> Agree with Jesse that would also need to see the viability of moving to >> xhr2 across our supported platforms. >> >> I am leaning towards keeping it around for now (maybe discussing a >> deprecation plan, and how to replace it with other structs), but would >> love to see it gone. What would we need to do to get rid of it >>long-term? >> >> On 7/26/12 10:17 AM, "Jesse MacFadyen" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >I don't see polyfillin this as an easy feat. >> >How can we implement ArrayBuffer? >> >Also, without web workers, file transfers would block the ui thread, >> >or am I missing something? >> >I think we need to go a little further into the 'how' before we can >> >see if it makes sense. >> > >> >Personally I think there will always be a place for the FileTransfer >> >API as it is simple and dedicated. >> > >> >Cheers, >> > Jesse >> > >> > >> >On 2012-07-26, at 9:42 AM, Joe Bowser <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> >> Hey >> >> >> >> There are a lot of requests to improve file transfer to support >> >> multiple files, and have the same header format on upload and >> >> download. I know that Andrew has been doing work on it, but I want >>to >> >> know if we should take on the multiple file ticket (CB-200), or if >> >> we're going to deprecate this and go with XHR2 for our File >> >> Upload/Download needs. I'm assuming moving to XHR2 will require >> >> polyfilling it on Android 2.x, which is fine, but I kind of want to >> >> see some movement on this, since I don't want to give people this as >>a >> >> First Ticket just to have it deprecated. >> >> >> >> Thoughts? >> >> >> >> Joe >> >>
