[whatwg] ProgressEvents for Images

[Glenn Maynard]

On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 9:57 PM, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:

>  > The particular case above should be fixed, at least in the most common
> > cases, by auto-revoking blobs, since you'll no longer need to carefully
> > call revokeObjectURL.  (I've come to the conclusion that
> > URL.revokeObjectURL was a very badly flawed idea, since it introduces
> > manual resource management in a platform not designed for it.)
>
> I'm not exactly clear on what exact words are needed here. If you could
> file a bug cc'ing the relevant people with a description of how to make
> this work, that'd be great. (I don't think this should be special-cased
> for <img>; there are dozens of other places in the spec where a URL may or
> may not be fetched for various reasons.)
>

I don't think any changes are needed here, aside from the autoRevoke
feature moving forward.


On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 8:06 PM, Garrett Smith <dhtmlkitchen at gmail.com>wrote:

> MSDN mentions a 'onetimeonly' property, and there was an 'isReusable'
> property proposal on some list before.
>
> Having recently had to patch a hot mess of code using that, I agree. It is
> ugly.
>

The IE "onetimeonly" feature has very serious issues, but it was an
important step towards the autoRevoke idea.

-- 
Glenn Maynard