[whatwg] Forms-related feedback

[Jonas Sicking]

On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2 Oct 2013, Jonas Sicking wrote:
>> Hixie wrote:
>> >
>> > That's not the only alternative. For example, a third alternative is
>> > that the user's selection (e.g. a directory) is returned quickly, not
>> > pre-expanded, and then any uploading happens in the background with
>> > the author script doing the walk and uploading the files.
>>
>> It's unclear to me what you are proposing here. Can you elaborate?
>
> On Wed, 2 Oct 2013, Glenn Maynard wrote:
>>
>> The same thing I did, I think: an API to navigate the directory tree as
>> needed, and to never greedily recursing the directory tree.
>
> On Wed, 2 Oct 2013, Jonas Sicking wrote:
>>
>> Unfortunately that's forbidden by current specs.
>
> Right, my point is that this would be a new API.
>
> I've filed this bug to track this feature request; if there are multiple
> implementors interested in this, I can add it:
>
>    https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=23988

Given that both Chrome and Firefox is shipping directory-upload
support, I would say that there are multiple vendors interested. At
least if 2 counts as multiple.

/ Jonas