Fwd: HTML DOM

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From: Philippe Le Hegaret <plh@w3.org>
Date: 23:04 12/02/2007
Subject: Re: HTML DOM
To: Erez Segal <segalerez@gmail.com>

On Sun, 2007-02-11 at 18:51 +0200, Erez Segal wrote:
> Hello!
> I was trying to build a file uploader using Javascript, when I
> understood I can not have access to client files due to security
> reasons.
> I suggest an exception: an access shall be given to a file chosen
> using <input type="file" />. if the user has chosen it, than read
> access should be given to that file, so my javascript could decide
> wether it should be uploaded, or (for example) split to many pieces,
> then uploaded.

I think this comment would be better addressed to the Web API Working
Group as a comment against their XHR document [1]. Do you mind your
comment to them at public-webapi@w3.org ?

Thank you,

Philippe



[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-XMLHttpRequest-20060927/