Drag and drop into file-upload in Safari
Update: Unfortunately, Google decided to change the upload mechanism to a Adobe Flash-based uploader that makes this little tip useless in gmail.
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”).
April 16th, 2008 at 5:09 pm
[...] adds: This was originally published in this post on the author’s blog, where a screenshot provides some additional clarification, if you need [...]
April 17th, 2008 at 2:36 am
I do not get this “choose file” button in Safari3 in Leopard…in either Gmail2 or Gmail1…? Any suggestion?
April 17th, 2008 at 2:43 am
Have to click the link first, to get the “Choose File” button. Never mind.
April 18th, 2008 at 11:10 am
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2190 add this dragdropupload for firefox…
February 17th, 2009 at 8:07 am
[...] this is changing! Since version 3, Safari on Mac OS X has had support for dragging and dropping files from the finder into file input boxes. In various kludgy ways, Firefox and IE are now following [...]