Re: maxlength for file inputs?

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> A combination of some design problems and lack of compelling use cases.


UAs that don't support or enable JavaScript isn't a compelling use case?
This (limiting the size of uploads) comes up again and again in HTML
circles.

More so than maxlength="". :-)


Well, yes. :-) "If you spec it, they will (eventually) come." Corollary: If
you *don't* spec it, there's little chance. I'd say the odds of having UAs
support a simple maxlength sooner rather than later are a *lot* higher than
implementing an entirely new DOM interface. And again, the latter (though
very cool!) doesn't address UAs that don't support or enable JavaScript.

-- T.J. :-)


On 29 March 2010 23:07, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote:

> On Mon, 29 Mar 2010, T.J. Crowder wrote:
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> > I'd be curious what those reasons were. It seems such a simple and
> > uncontroversial hint to the UA.
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> A combination of some design problems and lack of compelling use cases.
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> > Is the file API at all widely adopted?
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> More so than maxlength="". :-)
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