Re: File upload from a Web browser from Sami Shaio on 1995-07-14 (www-talk@w3.org from July to August 1995)

From: Sami Shaio <Sami.Shaio@eng.sun.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 1995 12:45:38 -0700
To: FisherM@is3.indy.tce.com, masinter@parc.xerox.com
Cc: www-talk@www10.w3.org
Message-Id: <199507141945.MAA15370@ruffles.Eng.Sun.COM>

The window toolkit shipped with HotJava provides a FileDialog class
that maps to the native file selection dialog on the platform it's
running on. It has a simplified interface, of course, so not all the
features of all the file dialogs are supported.

--sami

|From masinter@parc.xerox.com Fri Jul 14 11:52:16 1995
|From what *I* understand of Java, it isn't currently possible to
|create a 'file upload' applet.  The 'file upload' proposal asks for a
|platform-specific 'file selection dialog' to take place, and I don't
|see this as a Java primitive, nor how one might build such a thing
|using any of the Java primitives.
|
|Perhaps there are some Java experts who might clarify this?
|
|

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