HTML5 File API
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HTML5 File API aspect provides an API
for representing file objects in web application
s and programmatic selection and accessing their data. In addition, this specification defines objects to be used within threaded web applications for the synchronous reading of files. The File API describes how interactions with files are handled, for reading information about them and their data as well, to be able to upload it.
Application programming interface
An application programming interface is a source code based specification intended to be used as an interface by software components to communicate with each other...
for representing file objects in web application
Web application
A web application is an application that is accessed over a network such as the Internet or an intranet. The term may also mean a computer software application that is coded in a browser-supported language and reliant on a common web browser to render the application executable.Web applications are...
s and programmatic selection and accessing their data. In addition, this specification defines objects to be used within threaded web applications for the synchronous reading of files. The File API describes how interactions with files are handled, for reading information about them and their data as well, to be able to upload it.
See also
- File selectFile selectIn HTML, a file-select control is a component of a web form with which a user can select a file from his local machine. When the form is submitted , the file is uploaded to the web server. There, when the file arrives, some action usually takes place, such as saving the file on the web server...
- HTML5
- W3C Geolocation APIW3C Geolocation APIThe W3C Geolocation API is an effort by the World Wide Web Consortium to standardize an interface to retrieve the geographical location information for a client-side device...
- Binary Large ObjectBinary large objectA blob is a collection of binary data stored as a single entity in a database management system. Blobs are typically images, audio or other multimedia objects, though sometimes binary executable code is stored as a blob...
- HTML5 in mobile devicesHTML5 in mobile devicesHTML5 provides mobile device users richer web applications and improved usability. The new features of HTML5 standardize the use cases and technologies that are common in smartphone-optimized mobile web applications. In today’s Mobile Web of WML or XHTML-MP or HTML 4 documents, these features are...
External links
- W3C HTML5
- W3C File API Editor's Draft