[whatwg] Intent of the FileSystem API

[Glenn Maynard]

On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 7:10 PM, Eric Uhrhane <ericu at google.com> wrote:

> Our current implementation on Windows uses the standard API calls that
> limit paths to 256 characters long.  If your profile directory is
> deeply nested [e.g. because you have a really long username], code
>

Worse, the profile directory is deeply nested all by itself--it looks like
the typical location for this data would be something like:

C:\Documents and Settings\Glenn\Local Settings\Application
Data\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Storage

That's past 100 characters already.

-- 
Glenn Maynard