- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 22:48:50 +0000 (UTC)
On Thu, 15 Dec 2005, Hallvord R M Steen wrote: > > Some websites use "maxlength" attributes on file inputs. Of the more > important ones, GMX.de's webmail AFAIK uses a maxlength=255 for their > attachment form. Obviously when a WF2-compliant browser interprets this > as a file size limit you can't attach much.. We had this problem with a <textarea> element too, but the site got fixed. Have you tried contacting the sites in question? > Would it be a good idea to invent a new attribute, "maxbytes" or > "filesize" perhaps, to be more compatible with existing content? I'd just drop the feature altogether if we did that, or use min/max instead, but yeah, might be worth considering. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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