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 <jw...@jwatt.org> 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 > 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
