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Bug 28820 - A quick search shows that this causes more problems than it solves (more than 400k results for "C:\fakepath\"). It's a shitty workaround and should be removed.
Summary: A quick search shows that this causes more problems than it solves (more than...
Status: RESOLVED NEEDSINFO
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#dom-inp...
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Reported: 2015-06-16 14:40 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2015-08-04 09:13 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description contributor 2015-06-16 14:40:09 UTC 
Specification: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/forms.html
Multipage: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/#dom-input-value-filename
Complete: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#dom-input-value-filename
Referrer: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=500925&can=1&q=fakepath&colspec=ID%20Pri%20M%20Week%20ReleaseBlock%20Cr%20Status%20Owner%20Summary%20OS%20Modified

Comment:
A quick search shows that this causes more problems than it solves (more than
400k results for "C:\fakepath\"). It's a shitty workaround and should be
removed.

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