{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/whatwg/html/issues/217","repository_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/whatwg/html","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/whatwg/html/issues/217/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/whatwg/html/issues/217/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/whatwg/html/issues/217/events","html_url":"https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/217","id":109114484,"number":217,"title":"Expose getFilesAndDirectories() method on HTMLInputElement","user":{"login":"arunranga","id":2286170,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2286170?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/arunranga","html_url":"https://github.com/arunranga","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/arunranga/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/arunranga/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/arunranga/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/arunranga/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/arunranga/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/arunranga/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/arunranga/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/arunranga/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/arunranga/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/whatwg/html/labels/addition/proposal","name":"addition/proposal","color":"d4c5f9"}],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":9,"created_at":"2015-09-30T15:18:36Z","updated_at":"2016-06-22T02:21:38Z","closed_at":null,"body":"In order to enable Directory Upload via the HTMLInputElement, Mozilla and Microsoft propose a change: the addition of the getFilesAndDirectories() method, initially proposed in the WICG.\r\n\r\nhttps://wicg.github.io/directory-upload/proposal.html#dom-htmlinputelement-getfilesanddirectories\r\n\r\nThis method is also defined in the FileSystem API, on the Directory object: \r\n\r\nhttp://w3c.github.io/filesystem-api/#widl-Directory-getFilesAndDirectories-Promise-FileOrDirectorySequence\r\n\r\nThese provide asynchronous ways of navigating user-selected files and directories. This issue is to specify getFilesAndDirectories on the HTMLInputElement."},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/whatwg/html/issues/comments/227625747","html_url":"https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/217#issuecomment-227625747","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/whatwg/html/issues/217","id":227625747,"user":{"login":"inexorabletash","id":771547,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/771547?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/inexorabletash","html_url":"https://github.com/inexorabletash","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/inexorabletash/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/inexorabletash/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/inexorabletash/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/inexorabletash/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/inexorabletash/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/inexorabletash/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/inexorabletash/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/inexorabletash/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/inexorabletash/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2016-06-22T02:21:38Z","updated_at":"2016-06-22T02:21:38Z","body":"The [entries-api](https://wicg.github.io/entries-api/) attempts to specify the directory upload types and behavior as already implemented and shipping in Chrome, and apparently coming soon in Edge as well per @aliams, to ease interoperable implementations. As noted in the [Explainer](https://github.com/WICG/entries-api/blob/gh-pages/EXPLAINER.md), \"it is also very explicitly not a goal of this document to preclude further exploration of this area with APIs by other specifications that may improve the usability of this functionality\"\r\n\r\nI don't know what any other browser vendors' plans are, but I'd venture it's a tad early to merge anything into HTML in this space until we've got more clarity, though."}}
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