Vern, it's most likely a zone.js issue not being able to catch the events raised by FileReader or similar. But internally ng2 uses Rx, and the latter one has some extensions for what you are trying.
Here's a working plnkr http://plnkr.co/edit/vkJWwY617e9CZvqJwXmh Reference : - RxJS : https://github.com/Reactive-Extensions/RxJS - Rx-DOM : https://github.com/Reactive-Extensions/RxJS-DOM - To be more specific in the last one : Rx.DOM.fromReader https://github.com/Reactive-Extensions/RxJS-DOM/blob/master/doc/operators/filereader.md I hope it helps :) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AngularJS" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/angular. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
