- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 01:13:55 +0200
On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 01:07:23 +0200, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs at apple.com> wrote: > It would be nice if this was designed to handle the possibility of > multiple file selection (which I think Web Forms 2 enables). It does actually. There's a fileList attribute on HTMLInputElement that returns a FileList. >> It'd be possible to extend this to avoid bringing these files into >> memory. We'd just need globalStorage (or something like it) to >> accept/return nsIDOMFile objects, and a way for XHR to send them. > > Sounds reasonable. I'd love to see a rough cut at a spec for this. XMLHttpRequest level 2 supports sending ByteArray. So you could do something like the following maybe: xhr.send(file.bytes) Although if HTML5 gains a native File object I suppose support for that could be added as well if there's any benefit. -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>
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