On Monday, July 11, 2011 12:46 PM, Charles Pritchard wrote: > Problem is too strong a statement. I am all for trivial changes, part of my > advocacy for getFile is from past experiences when blob was less supported; > getFile would have helped. > > FileReader has base64 encoding for binary data-- base64 encoding otherwise > only works on DOMString. > > I'd like to see both proposals implemented... Then I get everything! > On Jul 11, 2011, at 12:21 PM, Adrian Bateman <adria...@microsoft.com> wrote: > > It requires more work for us. Our createObjectURL doesn't require that > > abstraction. > > The difference here is in the ECMAScript type. In contrast, modifying > > FormData > > append is a trivial change. > > > > What are the other APIs where this is a problem?
Our view is to see everything here as a Blob. A File is a specialisation of Blob that happens to have a name and modified date. If there is an API that replies on File to work correctly we think we should fix it to work with Blob. For example, FileReader is really BlobReader and works fine with Blobs. To me, getFile() should be unnecessary and the best fix for FormData is to just modify append for this situation. Adrian.
