On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 11:23 AM, Jonas Sicking <jo...@sicking.cc> wrote:

> Note that this, similarly to clipboard integration, is already exposed
> to the web through flash. So the main goal of this feature is to
> enable developers to migrate off of flash and instead use Gecko.
>

I'm not sure that this is the right standard. The reason that we are
removing
Flash is that people are sad about some things in Flash. So I think we need
to replicate enough of Flash to get people to stop using it, but that
doesn't
mean we need to have it be bug-for-bug compatible with every feature Flash
has, including features we think are bad.

-Ekr


> That said, if there are ways we can improve the UI here to further
> explain to users what is going on, then that sounds good to me.
>
> / Jonas
>
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 8:49 AM, Eric Rescorla <e...@rtfm.com> wrote:
> > This seems like a fantastically dangerous feature and ripe for abuse.
> >
> > Are we doing anything in the UI to make very clear to users what's going
> on?
> > Is there going to be a way to disable it?
> >
> > -Ekr
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 8:37 AM, Jonathan Watt <jw...@jwatt.org> wrote:
> >
> >> Targeting Firefox 44 we intend to ship[1] Directory Upload[2], which
> >> provides directory picking (via <input type=file directory>) and
> directory
> >> drag-and-drop. Our implementation has been developed behind the
> >> `dom.input.dirpicker` preference, enabled only in Nightly builds so far.
> >>
> >> In addition to previously announcing our intent to implement[3],
> Directory
> >> Upload has also been publicized to public-wicg[4], public-webapps[5],
> and
> >> planet.mozilla.org via my blog[6]. There has been very little formal
> >> feedback other than a suggestion to also support Directory integration
> with
> >> FormData (that would be a good and obvious enhancement) and some
> >> questioning of whether I/O blocking is really an issue (it can be).
> >> Informal feedback has been along the lines of "seems good to me".
> Further
> >> feedback continues to be welcome of course.
> >>
> >> Our informal understanding is that MS will not ship an implementation in
> >> Edge until at least the new year.
> >>
> >> -Jonathan
> >>
> >> 1. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1188880
> >> 2. https://wicg.github.io/directory-upload/proposal.html
> >> 3.
> >>
> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.platform/Q3BLd4Cwj6Q
> >> 4. https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-wicg/2015Sep/0000.html
> >> 5.
> >>
> https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2015JulSep/0347.html
> >> 6.
> https://jwatt.org/blog/2015/09/14/directory-picking-and-drag-and-drop
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