I would like to open a file on the client side, so it can populate a
local (client-side) table. (After validating of course). The data is
not needed on the server side.
What is the best way to do this? It seems uploading the file to the
server would be wasteful, but can you open the file on the
With the new W3C File API you could access files that are picked (by
the user) using an input tag or dropped via mouse (etc) over the
browser window, but AFAIK FF 3.6 is the only browser that supports it
now. @ Google IO, the comments from the GWT team were that as soon as
there is more browser
