On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Mark A. Hershberger <mah(a)everybody.org> wrote:
Could you point me to the specs that the html5
browsers are using?
Would it be possible to just make Firefogg mimic this same protocol for
pre-html5 Firefox?
The relevant spec is here:
http://www.w3.org/TR/FileAPI/
Firefox 3.6 doesn't implement it exactly, since it was changed after
Firefox's implementation, but the changes should mostly be compatible
(as I understand it). But it's not good enough for large files, since
it has to read them into memory.
But anyway, what's the point in telling people to install an extension
if we can just tell them to upgrade Firefox? Something like
two-thirds of our Firefox users are already on 3.6:
http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportClients.htm