Github user cfjedimaster commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-contacts/pull/65#issuecomment-116787903
Ah ok - so I misread it then.
On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 1:27 PM, Abhishek Hingnikar <
notificati...@github.com> wrote:
> @cfjedimaster <https://github.com/cfjedimaster> The platform you tested
> seems to be android, on windows phone you cannot directly use absolute
> paths (for obvious reasons).
>
> Windows returns a file, get the absolute url out of the file, read it
> again(also messing up with path is quite hectic on wp) using windows api
> (which already gave u the file), whereas if we use blob urls they are the
> de-facto way to read media on filesystem, now the runtime itself manages
> the reading of the file, the user can store the file if they want.
>
> Also a blob url is actually just a uuid, (its not data-url). Its actually
> smaller than the absolute file path on windows phone. ;-)
>
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