Ask HN: Is HTML File Upload still needed for uploading files to server?

Posted by manishsharan on Wednesday October 01, 2014 @11:28AM
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I am working on an application for those in the media business; my users need to send files to my server for processing. I am wondering if I should support form file upload from local drive vs letting users use Google Picker/ Dropbox picker to select files which my application can pull later.

I am asking this there is a wide spread adoption of Dropbox, Google Drive etc. and the fact that apple devices do not support file upload.

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Re:Ask HN: Is HTML File Upload still needed for uploading fi... by YoAdrian on Wednesday October 01, 2014 @11:59AM (#8395467)

Apple devices have been able to upload files via HTML since iOS 6.

http://www.webmonkey.com/2012/09/new-html-tricks-for-web-dev...

If you want to incorporate Google Drive or Dropbox, go ahead, but know that many corporate environments block those services, which is why basic HTML file uploads are still the standard.

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Re:Ask HN: Is HTML File Upload still needed for uploading fi... by manishsharan on Wednesday October 01, 2014 @11:57PM (#8399357)

Thanks ! I did not know about iOS6's file upload capability.

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