- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 01:33:56 +0000 (UTC)
On Mon, 11 May 2009, Samuel Santos wrote: > > I was asked by a client if it was possible to implement something > similar to the asynchronous file upload used on gmail using only > standard web technologies. > > Looking at the gmail source code I can see that they use some flash > magic. And by reading the HTML5 spec I could not find a way to implement > this feature. This is a feature of XHR2, I believe: http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/XMLHttpRequest-2/ ...though it will probably rely on the upcoming File API to actually obtain files to upload. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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