Re: Idea for new form input type

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From: Reed Wade <wade@cs.utk.edu>
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Subject: Re: Idea for new form input type 
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>How do you imagine this appearing to users? 
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>Dave


I think it could be dangerous to think too much about appearance
at this point. File input is clearly useful for a number of reasons 
so it seems reasonable to make it a special type of form input.
Wedging it into the TEXTAREA input sounds like trouble.


I'd like to suggest 2 more requirements-
 * allow the user to submit an arbitrary number of files
 * preservation of the original file name, when possible

Imagine you want to provide access to a c++ compiler
or something odd like that via www.


-reed

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