Last modified: 2012-04-18 14:59:58 UTC
HTML 5 work includes a multiple selection option for <input type="file">: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/forms.html#attr-input-multiple This is now supported in WebKit development trunk: http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/37863 Using this in the UI when Flash or other fancy upload controls aren't available would be a nice assist for supporting browsers. (Requires actual support for handling multiple file uploads -- bug 16751)
I'm working on a related widget (see http://usability.wikimedia.org/wiki/Multimedia:NewUpload), and if I can I'm adding in HTML5 multiple-file support.
Note that HTML5 multi-file support is currently working nicely in current release versions of at least the following browsers: * Firefox * Chrome * Safari PHP accepts them nicely if the <input type="file" multiple>s name attribute includes the "[]" brackets, which makes PHP interpret the multiple instances of things submitted under that name as an array. PHP-side code would need to be adapted to use the array if necessary.
Note that bug 26502 requests this for UploadWizard, which would need either multi-upload support in the API upload handler (thus also bug 16751) or using HTML5 FileAPI to read each file and submit it in a separate request. The core upload page could do similar on supporting browsers.
I think that Uplaod Wizard now supports this, so we can close the issue ?? ( see bug 26502 and bug 16751)
