Hi all, i was wondering if anyone knew a quick solution to my problem. I want to be able to open a folder on users screen pretty much the same as but just opening up the my computer folder so a user can drag a file onto the browser screen. anyone know how?
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You can't. They even gave this bug a name: "security".
The closest you can get without using Flash, proprietary browser stuff or Java is something like this.
Boldewyn
2009-11-03 10:53:15
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You have to use a java applet.
Javascript has no access to the file system for security reason.
Every page would be able to see the files on your local machine and might display: "According to the files on your disk you might be interested in some of our special movies ;)"
Ghommey
2009-11-03 10:53:26
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Incidentally, there are custom extensions in IE and Firefox that let you load and save files; it's the reason TiddlyWiki can work as it does. It does degrade a Java applet for other browsers.
A new jQuery plugin has been extracted out of TiddlyWiki to give Javascript authors the ability to load and save, and it's portable across all browsers:
twFile - http://jquery.tiddlywiki.org/twFile.html
It's quite possibly not what you're after as it will only work off a file:/// URL.
mahemoff
2009-11-03 11:26:10
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Instead of an applet you can also consider flash (actionscript aka swf) for a better user experience.
BalusC
2009-11-03 11:32:05