Ashley (Scirra)

I think a deferral style API for the web platform would considerably simplify this, and some other related problems, without having to invent API-specific solutions. For example: ```js document.addEventListener("click", e...

@mbrodesser - that link appears to refer to something different that happens to share the name "defer". I don't think it's relevant to what I proposed.

I just ran in to a similar thing around logging. Suppose the user wants to select a text file to add log entries to. The natural thing to do would...

Actually I think this is a really nasty gotcha with the API. In general if you use a save file picker, any error preparing or writing the data is a...

I've noticed that we get occasional support requests along the lines of "my computer crashed while saving and now my project won't open", and the customer sends their project file...

Actually, I guess the question is: does step 7.7's wording mean "overwrite the file with zero bytes", or essentially "create a new and empty file with zero size"? I suppose...

I don't think the user gesture requirement is unreasonable, nor is it directly related to the root cause issue here, although it does complicate workarounds. The key problem is the...

> A key difference is that, for native apps, file pickers are just an indication of which file the user wants the app to access. All that's returned from the...

OK, I'd be interested to check out any further discussions/changes if you can point me in the right direction!

So yes, lots of past discussion 🙈 I'm happy to adjust our engine to any new proposal and test the real-world performance relative to WebGL.