HTML5 File API

HTML5 File API aspect provides an API for representing file objects in web applications 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. Despite the name, the File API is not part of HTML5.

File API

Status	W3C Working Draft
Year started	18 October 2006 (2006-10-18)
First published	18 October 2006 (2006-10-18)
Organization	W3C
Committee	Web Applications Working Group (WAWG)
Editors	Marijn Kruisselbrink Arun Ranganathan
Base standards	HTML DOM Encoding Standard Fetch Standard Streams Standard URL Standard data URI scheme XHR
Related standards	Web Workers
Domain	File system
Website	www.w3.org/TR/FileAPI/

See also

• File select
• HTML5
• W3C Geolocation API
• Binary Large Object

References

1. HTML5 File Writer API
2. HTML5 File API
3. Reading local files in JavaScript
4. A state of limbo: the html5 file api, filereader, and blobs
5. Geolocation API Archived 2011-09-23 at the Wayback Machine

External links

• HTML5 Video Player