Re: lynx-dev <INPUT TYPE="file" ...

[Philip Webb]

981130 Tom Hall wrote: 
> The help page says: Lynx does not yet support INPUTs with TYPE="file"
> or TYPE="range" and will set the DISABLED attribute for all the fields
> if any INPUTs with either of those two TYPEs are present,
> so that the form can't be submitted. -- snip --
> For the case where you don't want to send a file,
> would it be possible to have Lynx send a nul file name,
> rather than have it set all the form's fields to DISABLED ?

this really does seem rather anti-social:
surely it's a temporary hack long ago, which has been forgotten?
 
> Is there a "to do" list for lynx somewhere ?

 www.slcc.edu/lynx/html/todo-list.html .
 
> Does anyone know when TYPE="file" is planned to be supported in lynx ?
 
as with everything, when someone gets around to offering a patch:
would you like to have a go at it?  can anyone else offer advice?

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