- From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2015 21:52:53 -0700
- To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>
- Cc: Ali Alabbas <alia@microsoft.com>, Web Applications Working Group WG <public-webapps@w3.org>
On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 5:45 PM, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 12:28 PM, Ali Alabbas <alia@microsoft.com> wrote: >> If there is sufficient interest, I would like to work on this within the scope of the WebApps working group. > > It seems somewhat better to just file a bug against the HTML Standard > since this also affects the processing model of e.g. <input>.files. > Which I think was the original proposal for how to address this... > Just expose all the files in <input>.files and expose the relative > paths, but I guess that might be a bit too synchronous... Yeah. Recursively enumerating the selected directory (/directories) can be a potentially very lengthy process. So something which the page might want to display progress UI while it's happening. We looked at various ways of doing this in [1] but ultimately all of them felt clunky and not as flexible as allowing the page to enumerate the directory tree itself. This way pages could even save time on enumeration by displaying UI which allows the user to select which sub-directories to traverse. [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=846931 / Jonas
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