[whatwg] input type=upload (not just files) proposal

[Eitan Adler]

A lot of websites let you upload either from a file on your hard drive
or from a link on the web.
Most of the time this is done by having two different inputs: One for
a file and the other for a URL.

If there were some type of input like "upload' which will allow for
any complete input.
Something like
file:///home/eitan/file_to_upload.pdf
or
http://example.com/file.pdf
or
ftp://user:password@example.com/file.pdf

It would then be the server's job to fetch the file unless the user
passed it a file:// scheme it which case the file would be provided by
the UI.


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Eitan Adler