For FirefoxOS devices, I think FileSystemProviderAPI provides a capability to connect to other type of storage, not only well-known cloud storage, for example Dropbox, but also user's private cloud. With FileSystemProviderAPI, FirefoxOS provides apps a general or easy way, for example DeviceStorageAPI, to access all kinds of storage.
I guess that storage providers might not be the one who write the storage app or addon, OEM might also be the possible one, for example Panasonic writes a Dropbox Addon for their smart TV to let user can play the pictures or videos on the TV directly. 2015-07-27 22:48 GMT+08:00 Kershaw Chang <kech...@mozilla.com>: > The motivation behind this is to let Firefox OS has the ability to access > files on cloud storage. With file system provider API, we can allow device > storage API to read/write files on cloud storage seamlessly. From user's > point of view, I think it would be better to use our current > music/video/gallery apps to acces user's files on cloud, but not other > apps. > > > On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 8:00 PM, Ted Mielczarek <t...@mielczarek.org> > wrote: > > > On Fri, Jul 24, 2015, at 04:13 AM, Kershaw Chang wrote: > > > Link to standard: > > > No formal specifications found on w3c. This API is only supported by > > > Chrome > > > OS now. > > > > What's the motivation here? Do we expect this to get used by apps if > > it's Chrome OS only right now? I've been looking into this problem space > > (cloud storage for use by webapps) and the neatest thing I've run into > > so far is https://remotestorage.io/ . That has the benefit of being > > entirely content-side right now, which seems like a smart way to start > > out. Extending something like that with browser hooks to make it better > > seems like a smarter play than copying Chrome privileged APIs. > > > > -Ted > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
