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Re: File upload from a Web browser
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry Masinter)
Fri Jul 14 14:42:21 1995
To: FisherM@is3.indy.tce.com
Cc: www-talk@www10.w3.org
In-Reply-To: Fisher Mark's message of Fri, 14 Jul 1995 12:41:00 -0700 <3006C9CB@MSMAIL.INDY.TCE.COM>
From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 1995 11:34:03 PDT
Resent-From: www-talk@www10.w3.org
>>>>> On Fri, 14 Jul 1995 12:41:00 -0700, Fisher Mark <FisherM@is3.indy.tce.com> said:
> Netscape has announced support for Java in their browsers, probably by the
> end of the year
> (<URL:http://www.netscape.com/newsref/pr/newsrelease25.html>). This lets
> the genie out of the bottle, as Netscape can then be extended in a nearly
> arbitrary fashion. From what I understand of Java, it should not take a lot
> of time to create a file upload applet.
From what *I* understand of Java, it isn't currently possible to
create a 'file upload' applet. The 'file upload' proposal asks for a
platform-specific 'file selection dialog' to take place, and I don't
see this as a Java primitive, nor how one might build such a thing
using any of the Java primitives.
Perhaps there are some Java experts who might clarify this?
