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? > >
