[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 271705] iOS: <input type="file" webkitdirectory> doesn't work.

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=271705

Karl Dubost <karlcow at apple.com> changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Karl Dubost <karlcow at apple.com> ---
webkitdirectory was implemented in Gecko (Firefox) on June 2016
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1258489
This was implemented for compatibility reasons with *Chrome* (when Chrome was using webkit) for websites like mega.nz in the past.

There was at the time a spec issue opened on the compat spec.
https://github.com/whatwg/compat/issues/54

It was eventually added to the File and Directory Entries API, Draft Community Group Report, which is not on the W3C standard track
https://wicg.github.io/entries-api/#html-forms

The document is clear
> NOTE: The APIs described by this document was initially implemented in Google Chrome. Other browsers (at this time: Edge, Firefox and Safari) are starting to support subsets of Chrome’s APIs and behavior. The intent of this document is to specify the common subset to ensure that the implementations are interoperable.


This is also in WebKit code. 
https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/fb2ad9ca7150890da5cadc458acdd10c87fd9a12/dom/html/HTMLInputElement.h#712-714

In addition to Safari on iOS (this bug), note that this is not available on Firefox Android.

I don't remember seeing anything recently about spec work around directly uploads.

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