That's not true at all. I've got a JS file that allows for live previews.
The JS file is attached, and here's the code needed to trigger it:
<form name="myForm">
<input type="file" name="photo_file"><br>
<input type="button" name="button" class="smaller" value="Preview Image"
onclick="previewImage(document.myForm.photo_file.value)">
</form>
I can't say that it works on all computers, but I've never once had a client
say that it didn't work._____ From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joan Piedra Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 12:39 PM To: jquery-en@googlegroups.com Subject: [jQuery] Re: Jquery can show Images from file:///C:? Hey Mario, I had the same idea some time ago, but after trying some workarounds and reading a lot of browser docs I noticed this was an horrible and really bad practice in web development. So we actually can't make an "image preview" before sending data to the server. We will have to stick to the simple way, upload then preview. Cheers, On 8/7/07, Mario Moura < <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi folks What I am trying is show an image into my browser with this tag <img width="50" height="50" src="file:///C:/Users/example.JPG"/> into my browser. Is it possible? or is a security lock from browsers? I am using $.post() So I could send the path that user choice C:/Users/example.JPG to my php and return <img width="50" height="50" src="file:///C:/Users/example.JPG"/> But isnt working because browsers cant show this tag <img width="50" height="50" src="file:///C:/Users/example.JPG"/> I can upload the file to webserver I know but will be more fast and I can save some bandwidth traffic if I could do this. And avoid malicious users consume my bandwidth traffic. So I am trying use AJAX to simulate Upload Ajax? and when forms is already send images normaly (without ajax). So Jquery can show Images from file:///C:? or something like this? Regards Mario -- Joan Piedra || Frontend webdeveloper http://joanpiedra.com/
previewImage.js
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