Very very cool. I was curious as to how you had implemented - but I like how you did. Excellent solution. Worked well for me in my small test.
--John On 3/22/07, Mike Alsup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've added file upload support to the form plugin and I could use some > help testing it out. If this feature interests you then go ahead and > grab the beta plugin at: > > http://malsup.com/jquery/form/file/jquery.form.js > > File upload support is baked right into the plugin and there are no > external dependencies. The plugin will automatically detect file > input elements and use an iframe to submit the form if there are files > to be uploaded. No extra coding or metadata is needed to take > advantage of this new feature. In addition, even though an iframe is > used instead of the XHR object, callbacks and global triggers still > work as expected (so any code that you have in place to display > activity indicators or blocking elements will still work). > > However, there are some challenges when using iframes in this manner. > For one, it is quite difficult to determine if the submit operation > succeeded or failed. The iframe becomes the target of the submit > operation and so that is where the server response is written. The > form plugin does its best to determine the data type (html, xml, etc), > but the status is always 'success' unless an exception is caught > during the type determination. (Note that dojo and YUI haven't > figured out how to solve the status problem either.) > > I've prepared a sample page with several forms here: > > http://malsup.com/jquery/form/file/ > > If you use this page for testing *please* be kind to my server and > only upload small files! I'd really prefer that you download the > plugin and integrate it into your own test environment if possible. > > I've done some testing on FF, IE and Opera and the results are > encouraging. I don't have access to Safari so I'm sure there are > issues lurking for that platform. > > If you're interested in the code you can find it all tucked into the > end of the ajaxSubmit method in a function called "fileUpload". > > Mike > > _______________________________________________ > jQuery mailing list > discuss@jquery.com > http://jquery.com/discuss/ > _______________________________________________ jQuery mailing list discuss@jquery.com http://jquery.com/discuss/
