On 03/17/2011 07:41 PM, Lachlan Hunt wrote:
On 2011-03-17 16:48, Olli Pettay wrote:
... src property definition needs to be changed
from DOMString to any.

That would be strange and make API inconsistent with <img> and <iframe>
for example.

This is getting a bit off topic, but it would be better if they were
also modified so that authors could, instead of doing this:

var file = document.getElementById('file').files[0];
if(file){
blobURLref = window.URL.createObjectURL(file);
myimg.src = blobURLref;
}

(Example from File API spec [1])

Do this:

var file = document.getElementById('file').files[0];
if (file) img.src = file;

The creation of a URL is just an unnecessary step for an issue that can
be handled internally by the browser, and suffers from the problems that
Philip pointed out. Besides, this was all discussed in the WebApps WG
some time ago [2].

Ok, some kind of DOMURL would make sense.
Perhaps getStreamURL could return that kind of url.
The object wouldn't need to be a stream.


I need to write some pseudo-js code to figure out how this all
could work.



[1] http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/FileAPI/#dfn-createObjectURL
[2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2010OctDec/0169.html


Reply via email to