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Java applets are necessary for folder uploads. Right now, only 1 browser supports folder uploads, and that's Google Chrome. All others allow single or multi-fil

Java applets are necessary for folder uploads. Right now, only 1 browser supports folder uploads, and that's Google Chrome. All others allow single or multi-file uploads, but not folders. This is a HUGE problem for some medical and document-management use cases. Until folder uploads work natively in other browsers (IE7+, FF, Safari), applets are not only necessary, but essential.

thexploit 14y ago
Yes, this is somewhat unfortunate and someone should really light a fire under the HTML5 implementors. However, I wouldn't call it essential since you can archive/zip/tar a bunch of files and upload them all at once and do the processing server side.