From : Charles McCathieNevile < : Charles McCathieNevile < chaals@opera.com



To : "Web API WG (public)" < : "Web API WG (public)" < public-webapi@w3.org

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Hi folks, Opera has a proposal for a specification that would revive (and supersede) the file upload API that has been lingering so long as a work item. In a nutshell, it provides the ability for a web application to get a filespace, by asking the user to identify such a space, and making it available to that application something like a virtual file system. Use cases include single or bulk file upload (e.g for images, a set of files, etc), as well as allowing the creation of widgets that use a set of local files. For example, you could make a music player widget by giving access to a mountpoint that contains music files, and you could add music to that directory which would also be available to traditional applications on the system. This is a draft, and we expect it to change. Opera has implementation of this, and we will make available some experimental builds for people to play with in the near future. We hope that the working group will take this as a replacement for file upload so it can develop as a useful interoperable standard. A draft is at http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/fileio/fileIO.htm so you can have a look. All manner of feedback is of course welcome... cheers Chaals -- Charles McCathieNevile Opera Software, Standards Group je parle français -- hablo español -- jeg lærer norsk http://my.opera.com/chaals Try Opera 9.5: http://snapshot.opera.com