On Mon, 14 Sep 2009, Eduard Pascual wrote: > > I already posted an example showing how fakepath can easily break > compatibility with well-written sites. I explicitly asked for > counter-arguments to it and none has been provided, but the argument > doesn't seem to be taken in consideration at all. Hence I'm wondering > how the compatibility arguments are treated here. Is compatibility with > an unknown-size niche of clearly bad-designed sites more important than > with potentially thousands of well-designed ones?
Dropping part of the file name in the rare case of a filename that contains a backslash seems like less of an issue that failing to accept the upload at all. On Mon, 14 Sep 2009, Robert O'Callahan wrote: > > This is a very minor issue and I'm fine with adding this to Gecko, > personally, except that first I really would like to see some specific > examples of sites that need this. There remains the faint possibility > that these sites already work in Firefox for some reason, and I'd like > to understand why, or if they don't, then I'd like to understand why we > haven't felt the need for this hack. Plus I think that in the spirit of > making decisions based on data, we should expect actual data to be > presented if possible, especially if requested, and here it seems like > it should be easy, yet I asked for specific examples earlier and none > have been forthcoming. Here are some bug reports that I believe are caused by this issue: http://forums.linksysbycisco.com/linksys/board/message?board.id=Wireless_Routers&message.id=135649 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r21297706-Re-Tweak-Test-Need-help-tweaking http://www.rx8club.com/showpost.php?s=42aad353530dfa4add91a1f2a67b2978&p=2822806&postcount=3269 Based on this my guess is just that people haven't filed this bug because they haven't thought of it as a browser bug (notice how nobody in those threads even mentions the browser). One of the sites I know aout that had this bug in Firefox and Safari was: https://www.freedfm.com/ ...but it has now been fixed (search for 'strFileName.indexOf("\\")' in the source -- it was commented out last year). Microsoft, in their blog post, refer to a number of other sites they tested, though they don't name them: http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2009/03/20/rtm-platform-changes.aspx I would love more data. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
