On Tue, 09 Jun 2009 03:33:56 +0200, Ian Hickson <i...@hixie.ch> wrote: > On Mon, 11 May 2009, Samuel Santos wrote: >> I was asked by a client if it was possible to implement something >> similar to the asynchronous file upload used on gmail using only >> standard web technologies. >> >> Looking at the gmail source code I can see that they use some flash >> magic. And by reading the HTML5 spec I could not find a way to implement >> this feature. > > This is a feature of XHR2, I believe: > > http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/XMLHttpRequest-2/ > > ...though it will probably rely on the upcoming File API to actually > obtain files to upload.
And as such is not defined yet at all, but that is pretty much the plan, yes. -- Anne van Kesteren http://annevankesteren.nl/