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

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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/

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.

References

HTML5 File Writer API
HTML5 File API Archived 2011-08-09 at the Wayback Machine
Reading local files in JavaScript
A state of limbo: the html5 file api, filereader, and blobs Archived 2013-01-07 at the Wayback Machine
Geolocation API Archived 2011-09-23 at the Wayback Machine

Web interfaces

Server-side
Protocols	HTTP v2 v3 Encryption WebDAV CGI SCGI FCGI AJP WSRP WebSocket
Server APIs	C NSAPI C ASAPI C ISAPI COM ASP Jakarta Servlet container CLI OWIN ASP.NET Handler Python WSGI Python ASGI Ruby Rack JavaScript JSGI Perl PSGI Portlet container
Apache modules	mod_include mod_jk mod_lisp mod_mono mod_parrot mod_perl mod_php mod_proxy mod_python mod_wsgi mod_ruby Phusion Passenger
Topics	Web service vs. Web resource WOA vs. ROA Open API Webhook Application server comparison Scripting

Client-side

Browser APIs

Web APIs

WHATWG	Audio Canvas DOM SSE Video WebSockets Web messaging Web storage Web worker XMLHttpRequest
W3C	DOM events EME File Geolocation IndexedDB MSE SVG WebAssembly WebAuthn WebGPU WebRTC WebXR
Khronos	WebCL WebGL
Others	Gears (discontinued) Web SQL Database (discontinued) WebUSB

Topics

Related topics
Frontend and backend Microservices REST GraphQL Push technology Solution stack Web page Static Dynamic Web standards Web API security Web application Rich Single-page Progressive Web framework

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