On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 11:23 AM, Jonas Sicking <[email protected]> wrote:
> Note that this, similarly to clipboard integration, is already exposed > to the web through flash. So the main goal of this feature is to > enable developers to migrate off of flash and instead use Gecko. > I'm not sure that this is the right standard. The reason that we are removing Flash is that people are sad about some things in Flash. So I think we need to replicate enough of Flash to get people to stop using it, but that doesn't mean we need to have it be bug-for-bug compatible with every feature Flash has, including features we think are bad. -Ekr > That said, if there are ways we can improve the UI here to further > explain to users what is going on, then that sounds good to me. > > / Jonas > > > > On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 8:49 AM, Eric Rescorla <[email protected]> wrote: > > This seems like a fantastically dangerous feature and ripe for abuse. > > > > Are we doing anything in the UI to make very clear to users what's going > on? > > Is there going to be a way to disable it? > > > > -Ekr > > > > > > On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 8:37 AM, Jonathan Watt <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Targeting Firefox 44 we intend to ship[1] Directory Upload[2], which > >> provides directory picking (via <input type=file directory>) and > directory > >> drag-and-drop. Our implementation has been developed behind the > >> `dom.input.dirpicker` preference, enabled only in Nightly builds so far. > >> > >> In addition to previously announcing our intent to implement[3], > Directory > >> Upload has also been publicized to public-wicg[4], public-webapps[5], > and > >> planet.mozilla.org via my blog[6]. There has been very little formal > >> feedback other than a suggestion to also support Directory integration > with > >> FormData (that would be a good and obvious enhancement) and some > >> questioning of whether I/O blocking is really an issue (it can be). > >> Informal feedback has been along the lines of "seems good to me". > Further > >> feedback continues to be welcome of course. > >> > >> Our informal understanding is that MS will not ship an implementation in > >> Edge until at least the new year. > >> > >> -Jonathan > >> > >> 1. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1188880 > >> 2. https://wicg.github.io/directory-upload/proposal.html > >> 3. > >> > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.platform/Q3BLd4Cwj6Q > >> 4. https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-wicg/2015Sep/0000.html > >> 5. > >> > https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2015JulSep/0347.html > >> 6. > https://jwatt.org/blog/2015/09/14/directory-picking-and-drag-and-drop > >> _______________________________________________ > >> dev-platform mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > dev-platform mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
