I can put my hand up to write the XHR2 tests for Mobile Spec. Is there a JIRA for this? or should I just start.
Gord On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Filip Maj <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > >> > >> > > -- Gord Tanner Senior Developer / Code Poet tinyHippos Inc. @tinyhippos
