Re: [FileAPI] createObjectURL isReusable proposal

[Charles Pritchard]

On Feb 2, 2012, at 1:40 PM, Ian Hickson <i...@hixie.ch> wrote:

> On Thu, 2 Feb 2012, Arun Ranganathan wrote:
>> 
>> 2. Could we modify things so that img.src = blob is a reality? Mainly, 
>> if we modify things for the *most common* use case, that could be useful 
>> in mitigating some of our fears. Hixie, is this possible?
> 
> Anything's possible, but I think the pain here would far outweigh the 
> benefits. There would be some really hard questions to answer, too (e.g. 
> what would innerHTML return? If you copied such an image from a 
> contentEditable section and pasted it lower down the same section, would 
> it still have the image?).

How about just a convenience method.

Blob.prototype.toString=function(){ return URL.createObjectURL(this);
};