[whatwg] Make files attribute of the input element writable

Anne van Kesteren annevk at annevk.nl
Wed May 23 00:24:02 PDT 2012


On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 3:38 AM, Jonas Sicking <jonas at sicking.cc> wrote:
> But even a sequence<Blob> should be allowed IMO.

How would you expose that in the UI?


> One concern I have though is that this is pretty problematic UI-wise.
> Simply displaying the .name (if it's a file) property in the UI seems
> like a good way to scare people into thinking that they have attached
> something that they didn't.

The UI for data:text/html,<input type=file multiple> seems pretty
terrible across the board. :-( I guess that makes most people use
script-based solutions instead.


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