- From: <Ernesto_Nebel.sd@xerox.com>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jan 1995 08:30:14 +0100
- To: Multiple recipients of list <www-html@www0.cern.ch>
X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII content-length: 2583 > > 7) What is the "typical" appearance of a FILE or SCRIBBLE input? > > The FILE widget would be button to invoke a file selection dialog plus > a single line text field to show the current selection. If more than one > file is selected then I guess you could show the most recently selected > one or the first one in the list. The Arena multiple selection widget > works this way. I would also allow users to type or paster into this > field directly. > Dave, It may be good to use the SIZE attribute to specify a multiline text field. SIZE=width,height would allow the text field on the browser to show more than one selected file to the user. Can you think of a reason not to do this? See the discussion below. Ernesto > ================================================================ > > Proposal: > > > The SIZE attribute should probably not be used with <INPUT > > TYPE=file> tags. For text input, it indicates the length in > > characters for the text area for the prompt. > > Bruce: > > > There is no reason _not_ to allow the SIZE attribute since it can be defined > > as "For file names, it indicates the length in characters for the file name > > _area_ for the prompt.". This will give FORMs designers some flexibility in > > designing the look of a form. > > > response: > > Hmmm, there was some confusion over whether SIZE meant file-name-size > or file-size, which is what caused us to disrecommend it. It's not at > all clear to me that forms designers should expect any leeway in > deciding what the right 'length' of a file name is for different > platforms: mac and windows and unix and magic cap are all different. > ================================================================ The HTML form support overview at: http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Mosaic/Docs/fill-out-forms/overview.html says: "Multiline text entry fields can be specified as SIZE=width,height; e.g. SIZE=60,12. Note: the SIZE attribute should not be used to specify multiline text entry fields now that the TEXTAREA tag is available." For <INPUT TYPE=file>, using SIZE=width,height would be useful to forms designers who expect to get several files and who would like to show a multiline file input field in the browser (with a "browse" button beside it, hopefully). It would be nice for browser implementors to show a one line text field when no height is specified (when the forms designer expects one file, only) and to show a multiline text area with scrollbars when the height is greater than 1 (when the forms designer expects multiple files).
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