WebKit or more specifically Chromium has the webkitdirectory attribute
that can be placed on a file input.
When you choose a directory it populates the FileList object with all the
files within the selected directory, however there is a bug[1] at the
moment. When you drag and drop a directory the FileList object is populated
with the directory name and not the files within it.
This hasn't been defined nor am unaware of any editor draft for this
functionality.
-Ryan
[1] http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=58977
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 8:59 PM, Rüdiger Kurz r.k...@alkacon.com wrote:
Hi,
this is Rüdiger I’m a developer from Alkacon Software GmbH in Cologne,
Germany. This year we are planning to release our new version 8 of OpenCms.
Therefore we want to support our customers with a File API / FormData based
upload functionality. This new upload feature should also provide drag and
drop.
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Context: HTML5 - File API in combination with Drag and Drop
Problem: If you drop directories/folders on to a defined dropzone, I
assume that it is not possible to detect that the dropped file is a
directory.
Target: When a user drops a directory, I want to inform the user in some
way that directories can't be handled by the program.
Note: I know that it should not be possible to read a whole directory
structure for security reason and that is not the point I want to make.
Suggestion: Extend the File Interface for a attribute called directory
interface File : Blob {
readonly attribute DOMString name;
readonly attribute DOMString directory;
readonly attribute DOMString lastModifiedDate;
};
directory: Has the value 'true' if the file is a directory, 'false'
otherwise
Kind regards
--
Rüdiger Kurz
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