On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 3:44 PM, Ian Hickson <i...@hixie.ch> wrote: > > * Websites wants to do their own "pick" UI > > * OSs can't display pickers which allow picking either a file or a > directory. > > I don't think I've ever seen a native application on any platform offer > two buttons, one to pick one or more files, and one to pick one (or more?) > directories. I think this should be a large red flag. Now if I'm wrong and > this kind of UI is in fact a thing, then fair enough, but if it's not, > maybe we should go and study how this problem is solved in native apps. >
I can't find any applications off-hand which allow both in the first place, but Windows doesn't have a dialog that can do both. Typically you end up with two separate buttons/menu items, but presented as separate features, eg."Open File" and "Import Directory". (Drag and drop doesn't need to make this distinction. I'm not sure what should happen if you have a "files" input, and drag a directory into it that you couldn't have selected with the file picker.) -- Glenn Maynard