- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 18:34:05 +0000 (UTC)
On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, [ISO-8859-1] Olav Junker Kj?r wrote: > Ian Hickson wrote: > > As has been said from the very beginning, it must be possible to implement > > these features in HTCs. This isn't new. We've been saying it since even > > before WHATWG was announced, even. > > What if a feature from WF2 is not implementable in IE6? > > I'm concerned about file upload. I'm not sure its possible to upload > files in other ways than using the "native" form-submission, which is > always multipart/form-data and POST. This means that you cannot include > file upload in xml-encoding, or with PUT in any encoding, and you cannot > support single-file upload with arbitrary content-types. > > I may be wrong though, since some people is able to make IE do the > impossible. In this case, however, it might be considered a security > problem if someone were able to tamper with file upload, and the we run > the risk of it being fixed in an update :-) There are probably several things for which there is simply no way to have a sane implementation in IE without Microsoft doing it. In those cases, I guess we just have to put up with IE not having that feature. (The new form submission formats do come to mind here.) -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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