I think we should allow addons to implement something like this. But I don't think it's something that we should let apps do.
/ Jonas On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 1:13 AM, Kershaw Chang <kech...@mozilla.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > Summary: > File system provider API [1] is now supported by Google. This API allows > developers to create apps that support virtual file systems and make files > stored on these to be available by Device Storage API. > > Use case: > One of the use cases is to let Firefox OS have the ability to access cloud > storage. With this API, users who install the app can have the cloud > storage seamlessly integrated into Firefox OS. Accessing files on cloud > becomes as easy as accessing locally. > > Idea of implementation: > The idl should be very similar to Google's [2]. We plan to have this > available to certified apps only. This will be released to privileged app > until we think the implementation is mature enough. > > Link to standard: > No formal specifications found on w3c. This API is only supported by Chrome > OS now. > > Platform coverage: > Firefox OS only. > > Bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1187223 > > Estimated or target release: > We are looking to have this completed by Dec. 2015. > > [1] https://developer.chrome.com/apps/fileSystemProvider > [2] > https://code.google.com/p/chromium/codesearch#chromium/src/chrome/common/extensions/api/file_system_provider.idl > > Thanks, > Kershaw > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
