On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 9:18 AM, James May <[email protected]> wrote: > On Windows at least, when put a URL in the open dialog the shell > downloads it then passes a temporary file. The browser never gets the > source URL - so it'd be difficult without re-implementing the dialog > (undesirable). Plus user control, and all that.
Actually, this is not a mandatory feature of the Windows file picker, the application can provide its own handling if it so wishes. Whether that applies to other platforms' file pickers, I'm not certain.
