On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 05:06:37PM -0400, Bob Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> To my knowledge, you can't specify this in a cross-platform way.
> Note that Mozilla (and I think IE) come up with a default filter of "*"
> ("*.*" for IE). I'm not sure if you can customize on the client.
>
> http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#file-select
> http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#input-control-types
>
> This documents states that "User agents may use the value of the
> value attribute as the initial file name", but Netscape doesn't appear
> to treat a value of "*.jpg" as a wildcard.
Well, I have to take some of that back. Apparently you can specify
and "accept" field that lists MIME types that the server will be able to
handle.
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#adef-accept
That said, while it would make sense to do so, neither Netscape
Navigator nor Mozilla appear to use this list to adjust the filter of
the file select control.
--
Bob Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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