Thanks, Johannes. That would be great! It would be good to have that
as a standard component for the platform.

Best,
Raju

On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 8:18 AM, Johannes Boesl <[email protected]> wrote:
> I did an implementation once that depending on the runtime used a swfupload
> or a dhtmlupload. It needed a servlet on the server to work though. When you
> think that might be useful I can see whether I am allowed to provide the
> sources.
>
> Cheers,
> JBoesl
> ADITO Software GmbH
>
>
> Am 03.06.2011 20:23, schrieb Raju Bitter:
>>
>> Oh, Max, Thanks, really appreciate your answer. :-)
>>
>> I'd use the http://www.w3.org/TR/FileAPI/
>>
>> It's only supported by Firefox, Chrome and Opera, but caniuse.com says
>> Safari 6.0 will support it. I'd be willing to work on an
>> implementation which could be added to the platform.
>> http://www.w3.org/TR/FileAPI/
>> http://caniuse.com/#search=file api
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 6:13 AM, Max Carlson<[email protected]>  wrote:
>>>
>>> I don't thnk there's an officially supported way to do this in dhtml.
>>> Webtop
>>> uses a flash-based control even in dhtml, I believe.
>>>
>>> I'd be happy to collaborate on a native component - the iframe method may
>>> be
>>> the least evil... What do you think?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On May 30, 2011, at 11:37 AM, Raju Bitter
>>> <[email protected]>  wrote:
>>>
>>>> What is the recommended way for doing file upload with binary data in
>>>> a DHTML app? I did some research, and have some questions.
>>>>
>>>> a) Is it technically possible with the current LFC without using an
>>>> iFrame?
>>>> b) Is it possible using the<form>  tag?
>>>> c) Is it possible using datasets with the embedded XHR object?
>>>> d) If it's not possible, will OpenLaszlo 5.0 support that?
>>>>
>>>> After looking into the source code I think that
>>>> a) it's only possible when enctype="multipart/formdata" is supported
>>>> within the LFC, see http://jira.openlaszlo.org/jira/browse/LPP-9946
>>>> b) the form tag doesn't have an "enctype" attribute like the HTML form
>>>> tag, which means you cannot set the enctype to "multipart/formdata"
>>>> c) technically yes, but LPP-9946 would have to be implemented for that
>>>>
>>>> With an ugly JavaScript hack it might be possible to get it working,
>>>> using the underlying display object.
>>>>
>>>> The DHTML version of Webtop supports file upload, as I saw here:
>>>> http://jira.openlaszlo.org/jira/browse/LPP-8343 How has that been
>>>> implemented? And why isn't that part of the platform? I think an RIA
>>>> platform is not complete if you cannot at least upload files with it.
>>>> For the Flash runtime, the file uploader is still in the incubator.
>>>> That means, OpenLaszlo does not have support for file upload with
>>>> components that have gone through the full QA cycle, right?
>
>

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