I'm wr0king in a primarily M$ shop, so I'm trying to build an app (designed for IE, but cross-browser solutions would be even better) that will interact with files on my local desktop.
I've discovered that you can display the contents of $user's local drive by including an iframe with its src attribute set to \\user_ip\c$ (or file:///C:/), but this data isn't actually captured for use by the web app.
I want to take this to the next step: either by drag-n-drop or select-n-click, I want to allow $user to choose file(s) from $user's local hard drive for processing by an app hosted on the web server.
I know this is possible by using the input tag with type=file, but that allows only one file to be selected at a time (except in Opera, which implements the tag properly, but our users don't use Opera, and I don't have the pull/weight/influence around here to make anyone switch).
If anyone knows a workaround that allows the user to upload multiple files without clicking that blasted Browse button multiple times, I'd multiple much appreciate it. :)
This is an internal app on $company's secure intranet.
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