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HTML5 Developer’s Cookbook
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HTML5 Developer’s Cookbook

by Chuck Hudson, Tom Leadbetter
December 2011
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
480 pages
10h 42m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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14. Working with Local Files

Until HTML5, working with files in the client browser has had minimal attention and support. Typically, the breadth of functionality has consisted of simple file selection for posting to a web server. With HTML5 and a supplemental API set, the File API, we now have an increased set of functionality and more importantly a standardized set of functionality to get basic attributes of files and read different file types into the client browser through JavaScript. In this chapter, you will learn about the new set of functionality with the File API through recipes that will cover the basics as well as some newer File API specifications that are on the horizon.

File API Overview

The File API provides a standardized way to ...

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