[8629] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: File upload from a Web browser
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fisher Mark)
Tue Jul 18 07:52:35 1995
From: Fisher Mark <FisherM@is3.indy.tce.com>
To: "'Graham Jim'" <flar@bendenweyr.eng.sun.com>,
Masinter Larry <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
Cc: www-talk <www-talk@www10.w3.org>
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 95 06:30:00 PDT
Resent-From: www-talk@www10.w3.org
I also see Java as a way to prototype new browser features, like file
upload. Once the prototype serves its purpose, though, the feature should
be hard-coded into browsers. There are useful file upload apps (the TCE
Corporate Technical Memory being one) where local directory restrictions on
files would not be a problem, so Java would be an appropriate prototyping
tool.
Maybe it is my own myopic viewpoint, but file upload seems to be one of just
a small handful of WWW browser features that have a very high benefit/cost
ratio that have not been implemented. Unicode support (admittedly
significantly higher cost) seems to be the other...
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Mark Fisher Thomson Consumer Electronics
fisherm@indy.tce.com Indianapolis, IN
