- From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 09:49:51 -0700
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 3:37 PM, John Gregg <johnnyg at google.com> wrote: > The use case is not about choosing a directory for some browser > functionality, it is really about choosing a directory that you want > to upload to a web page, such as a collection of photo albums. > > ?-John > > From Ian Fette's original email > (http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2009-December/024455.html): > > USE CASE: > Many sites allow you to upload multiple files, often images. HTML5 allows > this via <input type="file" multiple>. This works well when your files are > all in one folder, but it may often be the case that files are spread across > sub-folders, and in this case you have to do multiple transactions (or > multiple <input type=file multiple> tags, which is just awkward) to upload > your files. You can do this without any changes to the spec. The fact that chrome only allows files from a single folder to be selected is not a limitation imposed by the spec. In fact, we've talked at mozilla about improving the UI around <input type=file>, and better handling of multiple selected files is high up on that list. / Jonas
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