On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 16:45:04 +0200, Arun Ranganathan <a...@mozilla.com>
wrote:
On 10/18/10 10:14 AM, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
we design it in a generic way so that it also works for Stream objects?
This would be a good idea; this was noted as part of the issues [1].
Is your suggestion to have a generic method (with a better name) that
takes Streams or Blobs as arguments? Do you have a suggestion for
signature or method name?
I did not come further than createURL or createURLFromObject. However, if
we get URL objects (or maybe WebURL to prevent clashes) tying it to that
makes a lot of sense to me.
Otherwise we will get createStreamURL as well which seems kind of
unnecessary. Maybe even better, can we somehow converge this with the
URL specification Adam Barth was working on? So you can do new
URL(Blob) rather than having more methods on Window?
OK, that's engineering for maximum use cases, but not a bad idea on the
whole. However last I checked, the URL API was a proposal as a Google
doc[2]. Does it live somewhere more permanent?
No, not yet, but I suspect it would not be a problem for Adam to make this
into a Working Draft.
Implementations are already in circulation that have *.createBlobURL
which leads me to:
Also, is there some kind of implementation summary available regarding
the File API specifications? With what is shipping prefixed and what is
shipping without a prefix? We are interested in supporting this too in
the distant future.
No, but there should be. I think it's Firefox nightlies and Chromium
nightlies for now. Firefox isn't using a prefix on the method.
I would prefer it if createBlobURL and co were prefixed. Everything else
is probably stable enough.
-- A*
[1]
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2010OctDec/0083.html
[2]
https://docs.google.com/document/edit?id=1r_VTFKApVOaNIkocrg0z-t7lZgzisTuGTXkdzAk4gLU&hl=en&pli=1#
--
Anne van Kesteren
http://annevankesteren.nl/
