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  • Tim Streater
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    Using jS to display an image from file

    The following test page is intended to allow the user to choose an image
    file, and then display it. It works as expected in Safari 3.1.1, FF
    2.0.0.14 (Mac), and IE7 (XP).

    But, it fails in FF 2.0.0.14 (Win-XP) - the image doesn't appear. The
    error console shows no errors and Page Info, under the media tab, shows
    no loaded image (in contrast to FF Mac which shows the image).

    The images I select are all jpegs, btw.

    Any pointers would be appreciated - thanks.



    <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd">

    <html>
    <head>
    <title>Image with a Javascript preview.</title>
    <script type="text/javascript">


    function preview()
    {
    var filename = document.form1. filesent.value;
    var Img = new Image ();
    Img.src = filename;
    document.images[0].src = Img.src;
    alert ("Filename: '" + filename + "' width: " + Img.width + "
    height: " + Img.height);
    }

    </script>
    </head>

    <body>
    <h3>File Upload - v020</h3>
    <form name='form1'>
    <input type=file name=filesent>
    <input type=button value="Preview" name="Preview" onClick="previe w()">
    </form>
    <p>Image follows</p>
    <img name="image1">
    </body>
    </html>
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      Re: Using jS to display an image from file

      Tim Streater escribió:
      var filename = document.form1. filesent.value;
      var Img = new Image ();
      Img.src = filename;
      A string like "C:\Picture.jpg " is not a valid URI. Try adding a
      "file://" prefix and maybe escaping file name characters that need so.



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          #3
          Re: Using jS to display an image from file

          On May 21, 8:28 pm, Tim Streater <tim.strea...@d ante.org.ukwrot e:
          The following test page is intended to allow the user to choose an image
          file, and then display it. It works as expected in Safari 3.1.1, FF
          2.0.0.14 (Mac), and IE7 (XP).
          >
          But, it fails in FF 2.0.0.14 (Win-XP) - the image doesn't appear. The
          error console shows no errors and Page Info, under the media tab, shows
          no loaded image (in contrast to FF Mac which shows the image).
          >
          The images I select are all jpegs, btw.
          >
          Any pointers would be appreciated - thanks.
          >
          <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
          "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd">
          >
          <html>
          <head>
          <title>Image with a Javascript preview.</title>
          <script type="text/javascript">
          >
          function preview()
          {
          var filename = document.form1. filesent.value;
          var Img = new Image ();
          Img.src = filename;
          document.images[0].src = Img.src;
          alert ("Filename: '" + filename + "' width: " + Img.width + "
          height: " + Img.height);
          }
          >
          </script>
          </head>
          >
          <body>
          <h3>File Upload - v020</h3>
          <form name='form1'>
          <input type=file name=filesent>
          <input type=button value="Preview" name="Preview" onClick="previe w()">
          </form>
          <p>Image follows</p>
          <img name="image1">
          </body>
          </html>
          Within the standard security settings you are not allowed to read the
          current input-file content, only the file name itself, without path.

          IE and some other browsers are having a bit relaxed policy so they let
          you to read the full path iff the current page is loaded from a local
          drive. FF doesn't make such relaxation in neither case: this is why
          the difference you see.

          For a page loaded from the Web all browsers are acting in the same way
          (file name only, no path) and sometimes even that is prohibited.

          In any case no one browser will not let you to access the local file
          system in the latter case, so even if you set the path manuially like
          myImg.src = "file:///C:/image.gif" if will not work.

          So the starting idea was nice but it didn't account the necessarily
          imposed security restrictions.

          For the preview if you still want to implement it, you have to submit
          the image first to the server and having server bouncing the image to
          the form's target (i)frame.

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