[whatwg] File Upload Control
Lachlan Hunt
lachlan.hunt at iinet.net.au
Tue Aug 17 17:11:47 PDT 2004
Ian Hickson wrote:
> File upload controls should never be stylable. If they were stylable, it
> would be too easy to trick users into uploading private files, by making
> them think they were normal text fields, for example.
How exactly would it make it any easier for a user to be tricked into
selecting and uploading a private file if there was no visible browse
button? The user would just be forced to type the full path manually,
rather than selecting it with a GUI, so they would still no they were
selecting a file.
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Lachlan Hunt
lachlan.hunt at lachy.id.au
http://www.lachy.id.au/
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