- From: Nico Weber <thakis@chromium.org>
- Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 16:48:28 -0700
- To: Ojan Vafai <ojan@chromium.org>
- Cc: whatwg@whatwg.org
Proposed Firefox patch https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=757664 On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 4:10 PM, Ojan Vafai <ojan@chromium.org> wrote: > Proposed WebKit patch https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87154. We'd > really like to hear if Hixie and/or other browser vendors have reservations > on making this change, otherwise, we'll commit this soon. > > > On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Nico Weber <thakis@chromium.org> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> The files attribute of the input element is currently marked readonly >> [1], to protect from `myInput.files = "/etc/passwd"; myForm.submit()`. >> Since its type is now FileList and not string, that's no longer >> necessary. >> >> Making the attribute writable would allow setting the files property >> of an input element to dataTransfer.files from a drop handler. For >> example, I would like to use this to create a larger drop-target for a >> file input. Here's one request for this functionality: >> >> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8006715/drag-drop-files-into-standard-html-file-input >> >> Can the readonly restriction be removed from the spec? >> >> Nico >> >> >> 1: >> http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/the-input-element.html#the-input-element > >
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