[whatwg] Stream API Feedback

[Olli Pettay]

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
>