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japrescott
japrescott

Reputation: 5025

File Input on FirefoxOS (Boot2Gecko!==Gecko?)

I was developing a webapp for firefoxos (Boot2Gecko) and noticed, that there is no file-picker when clicking on an input(type=file). I came across this bug and it seems as if there hasn't been any movement for some time - luckily, we can at least now detect if its disabled.

But, wasn't boo2gecko/firefoxos supposed to run on the newest Gecko Engine and therefor support everything firefox does on android? I am very surprised about this fact. Is the situation similar with Chromium und ChromeOS that they don't support common web-features of eachother? I am still in shock about this inconsistency! Any insight about this divergence?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 356

Answers (1)

benfrancis
benfrancis

Reputation: 401

Clicking an [input type="file"] element in Firefox OS should launch a "pick" web activity which gives the user the opportunity to pick a file from any app which uses this activity.

This was implemented in bug 832923

Upvotes: 5

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