Bug 76809 - HTML5 drag-and-drop should support async FileEntry/DirectoryEntry interface for dropped folders/files
Summary: HTML5 drag-and-drop should support async FileEntry/DirectoryEntry interface f...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: WebKit
Classification: Unclassified
Component: WebCore Misc. (show other bugs)
Version: 528+ (Nightly build)
Hardware: Unspecified Unspecified
: P2 Normal
Assignee: Kinuko Yasuda
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: 49624 (view as bug list)
Depends on: 76826 82592 87969 88293
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Reported: 2012-01-22 22:55 PST by Kinuko Yasuda
Modified: 2012-06-20 05:08 PDT (History)
4 users (show)

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Description Kinuko Yasuda 2012-01-22 22:55:28 PST 
HTML5 drag-and-drop and <input type="file"> should support FileSystem API-based async interface for dropped folders/files so that the webapps can traverse the dropped directory trees asynchronously (i.e. no blocking operations).

The original proposal on whatwg:
http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2011-November/033814.html

FileSystem API:
http://dev.w3.org/2009/dap/file-system/file-dir-sys.html

This is an umbrella bug for the feature.
Comment 1 Kinuko Yasuda 2012-06-07 04:43:17 PDT 
*** Bug 49624 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Kinuko Yasuda 2012-06-20 05:08:16 PDT 
All patches have been landed now and HTMLInputElement.entries (webkitEntries) and DataTransferItem.getAsEntry() (webkitGetAsEntry) will become available in chromium port for experiments.

Further references:
http://crbug.com/99823
http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/DragAndDropEntries