[whatwg] fileList vs files

Biju bijumaillist at gmail.com
Thu Mar 26 20:26:00 PDT 2009


>>>
   I have a poor memory,
   hence not good in spelling,
   if there is not much gain with a change,
   i wish every thing follow a similar pattern
   and with short spelling,
   which make my life little easier.
<<<

On "C:\fakepath\" in HTML5 thread Anne mentioned "fileList" for <input
type=file multiple>

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Anne van Kesteren <annevk at opera.com> wrote:
> application developers...) Furthermore, once we get interoperable support
> for <input type=file multiple> and the fileList proposal starts moving we

Can we call it "files" instead of fileList, this will make it
consistent with existing names like

arguments
document.links
selection_element.options
document.plugins
document.embeds
document.anchors
document.forms
document.applets
document.images

on firefox we fixed it
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=405741



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