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Firefox 3.6/HTML5 File Objects Security Review: Difference between revisions
Firefox 3.6/HTML5 File Objects Security Review (view source)
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== Reliability == | == Reliability == | ||
* '''What failure modes or decision points are presented to the user?''' As far as I know, there are plans to prompt the user with a non-modal dialogue alerting them when file retrieval occurs via drag n' drop, though none of the details are currently fleshed out in the spec. Perhaps this an indication that such a feature is up to the browser vendor? | * '''What failure modes or decision points are presented to the user?''' As far as I know, there are plans to prompt the user with a non-modal dialogue alerting them when file retrieval occurs via drag n' drop, though none of the details are currently fleshed out in the spec. Perhaps this an indication that such a feature is up to the browser vendor? | ||
* '''Can its files be corrupted by failures? Does it clean up any locks/files after crashes?''' Other than storing/retrieving files within DOMStorage , there's no mechanism defined for writing to a user's local file system. And there probably never will be. | * '''Can its files be corrupted by failures? Does it clean up any locks/files after crashes?''' Other than storing/retrieving files within DOMStorage, there's no mechanism defined for writing to a user's local file system. And there probably never will be anytime soon. | ||
== Review comments == | == Review comments == | ||