For information. <input type='file'> should now be using a 'pick'
activity. This should be working on trunk and 1.1.
Cheers,
--
Mounir
On 24/01/13 22:16, Mathieu Rochette wrote:
> Hello guys,
>
>
> right now, there is no file picker implemented in FirefoxOS. That means
> that every form relying on an <input type="file"/> is broken. I didn't
> find information on how this is going to be solved.
>
> In Firefox on Android, it seems that the input is calling an Intent (I
> don't know to much about android).
> What about making the input calling the pick activity on Firefox OS?
> I think a lot of file input are used for images (facebook, twitpic,
> foursquare, etc.). As there is already the Gallery & Camera app for
> image, a lot of form would work with that. And the input accept
> attribute when present would be used to filter the activity handlers (as
> already possible with the activities filters)
> And new apps (gps tracking => gpx, office suite => .doc, etc.) could
> provide other file types easily. Maybe the email app could be allow
> access the email attachment. A Dropbox (or MEGA) app could handle pick
> intent too.
>
> What to you think about it?
>
>
> this was about use case when you need a file to complete your goal. Now
> I'd like to ask you if there is something about Activities that could
> help me if I'm starting with the file. for example, I received an email
> with an attachment (pdf, doc, image, gpx, epub, etc.) what can I do
> about with it? Can I start an activity without a name? What I mean is,
> the email app cannot know every activity available for a file. What
> would be interesting would be a way to say, let the user choose from
> list of activities that handle <file-type> which activity he want to
> start. here I suppose that every activity handling file accept a Blob
> and tell in the manifest which file types are accepted ("filters":
> {"type": ["image/jpeg", "image/png"]} or "filters": ["*"], etc.)
>
>
> have a good day,
>
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