[Owncloud] Broken fileupload on IE

[Robin Appelman]

On Wednesday 16 May 2012 13:03:34 Thomas Tanghus wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 May 2012 12:33 Arthur Schiwon wrote:
> > Hey,
> > 
> > in OC 4 file upload is broken on IE (at least for IE 8 and 9), despite
> > it has worked on OC 3. This is somewhat critical unfortunately.
> > 
> > IE fires an JavaScript error: "Access denied".
> > 
> > It occurs between when this is triggered:
> > $(this).parent().children('.file_upload_start').trigger('click');
> > (in apps/files/js/files.js)
> > 
> > file_upload_start is the file input element. IE is very strict about
> > this type of element and hardly permits JS interaction with that.
> > 
> > OC 3 does not differ much regarding HTML structure. However, using IE
> > the cited line is not being triggered. Confusingly, commenting out that
> > element makes it unusable.
> > 
> > I am pretty much dark with that. Does someone of you have an idea?
> 
> This will probably also render profile picture useless in Contacts. I use
> the same technique: $('#file_upload_start').trigger('click');
> 
> I don't have access to IE though, so I can't test it.

If I recal correctly the old version works because the file dialog is placed on 
top of the visual button and made fully transparent, thus the user clicks on 
the file dialog instead of the button.

 - Robin Appelman