On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 4:40 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?).
We could define that it returns an empty src attribute, which would break the copy/paste example. That's the same behavior you'd get with someone revoking the URL upon load anyway. / Jonas