[whatwg] File Upload Control

[Ian Hickson]

On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, Lachlan Hunt wrote:
>
> 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.

You'd be surprised how easy it is to trick users into typing things like 
that. For example:

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