Serverless Web App

[pedz]

I just made up that term... I doubt if it is a new concept but I have one very fundamental problem in doing a serverless web app:

I want to do an "up load file" operation except instead of going to a web server, I want it to just be fed into the web application.

Now that we have javascript, graphics, and database APIs in the browser (HTML5), the need for a server sometimes is not necessary.

I'm not 100% positive yet which way I want to go for my particular app but the one big glaring thing I don't know how to do is how to upload a file into the browser rather than upload it to a remote server.

It seems like there are security issues here so it may be the answer is "you can't" but I thought I'd ask.

[zcorpan]

Check out

http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/FileAPI/
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/cu ... nput-files
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/cu ... sfer-files