[Javascript] file upload

[Iztok Polanic]

Hi!

And how about opening via JS File Browser menu? Is that also impossible?
Because that Browse button is really ugly :(

Bye,

Iztok

> -----Original Message-----
> From: javascript-bounces at LaTech.edu
> [mailto:javascript-bounces at LaTech.edu]On Behalf Of jsWalter
> Sent: 29. november 2004 19:25
> To: [JavaScript List]
> Subject: Re: [Javascript] file upload
>
>
> "Iztok asked:
>
> <snip>
> > The user will select all the files he or she wants' to upload...
> <snip>
> > Can someone help me? After that I thought I would
> > make for every file it's own <input type="file"> tag.It will be
> > hidden of course. Is this the correct way?
>
> In a word, no.
>
> You can't modify the contents of a FILE tag. Period.
>
> I like Mikes idea of showing/hiding successive FILE tags, but my issue
> with that could be long upoload times if many files are sent, and/or large
> files are sent.
>
> What many system do to get around this is to sent up each file in turn,
> add them to a TEXTAREA when they are uploaded, have the server store them
> in a temp area for your use. Then, when the user is finished, the "page"
> is sent with some marker that IDs the list of pages as theirs, and the
> server process handles it as needed.
>
> It's a bit tedious, but it is safer than uploading several at once.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Oh, BTW: This is not really a JS issue, this is a standard HTML nd server
> side process issue.
>
> JS will just help you show/hide FILE tags (for Mikes idea) and it wouldn't
> help you at all for my idea.
>
> Walter
>
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