On Sun, 01 Nov 2009 15:33:15 -0800, Geoff Lankow <[email protected]>
wrote:
the filename of the first file in the list of selected files
<http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/forms.html#concept-input-type-file-selected>,
if any, or the empty string if the list is empty. On setting, it must
throw an |INVALID_ACCESS_ERR
<http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/infrastructure.html#invalid_access_err>|
exception.
Why only the first file in the list? It can't be for
backwards-compatibility, as the multiple attribute never existed before
this spec. Doesn't it make sense to list all the files?
You can get the file names through <input>.files. Making <input>.value
more complex as well did not seem worth it.
--
Anne van Kesteren
http://annevankesteren.nl/
