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Re: Form fields for uploading

From: Benjamin Chait <benjamin.chait@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 11:56:01 -0400
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To: public-html@w3.org 
On Apr 2, 2007, at 11:48 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
> File upload fields are very, very broken right now. They should be  
> modified to allow
> for:
>
> 	1) Drag and Drop of files to the upload field
> 	2) Uploading of multiple files
> 	3) Setting the file type to upload
> 	4) Uploading/selecting of whole folders
> 	5) if possible, let the author read (DOM/JS) the number of files that
> 	were selected for uploading, their filenames/paths and their size.

This sounds like it's beyond HTML WG and into XForms? (Not sure the  
actual term, but this is more technical than just HTML.)
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