Re: FileUpload Spec | Editor's Draft | Re: Call for Consensus: a new WD of the File Upload spec

On Oct 16, 2008, at 9:57 PM, Garrett Smith wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 9:48 PM, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>  
> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Oct 16, 2008, at 8:46 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote:
>>
>
>> But it does require an unforgeable user click to bring it up, so  
>> you can't
>> spam it or make it pop up at carefully controlled times. Might not  
>> be a huge
>> risk but I think the theoretical benefits are not worth it.
>>
>
> If the event cannot be manually created and dispatched, then how do
> you propose testing it?
>
> I'd like to see the unit test code that drives that one.

Cross-browser tests for <input type="file"> require human  
intervention. The click is hardly the biggest obstacle; actually  
selecting the file from the dialog is something that could not be  
faked by posting DOM events, even in theory. Tests specific to a  
particular layout engine or custom test harness may use special  
facilities not available to normal Web content to automate the test.

Regards,
Maciej