Drag and drop into file-upload in Safari

Posted on April 10, 2008 by admin

Update: Unfortunately, Google decided to change the upload mechanism to a Adobe Flash-based uploader that makes this little tip useless in gmail.

Drag and drop files Safari
One benefit for Safari over Firefox in Mac OS X is the possibility to drag and drop files into the “choose file” box (input-tag type=”file”).

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5 Responses to Drag and drop into file-upload in Safari

  1. Pingback: News » Drag and drop files to Safari’s Choose File button

  2. ktswami says:
    April 17, 2008 at 02:36

    I do not get this “choose file” button in Safari3 in Leopard…in either Gmail2 or Gmail1…? Any suggestion?

  3. ktswami says:
    April 17, 2008 at 02:43

    Have to click the link first, to get the “Choose File” button. Never mind. ;)

  4. mårten says:
    April 18, 2008 at 11:10

    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2190 add this dragdropupload for firefox…

  5. Pingback: Clean drag and drop upload in Safari | Musings of B

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