I’ve been going over this for hours now, looking through different options on the web trying to understand -and not just replicate- how to load a text file. I couldn’t get to work ANY of the examples I found, that is, until I changed from chromium to firefox. As an example, the code in stackoverflow question: HTML5 File api, reading in an xml/text file and displaying it on the page? which I write here for simplicity:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>reading xml</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
</head>
<body>
<input type="file" id="files" name="files[]" multiple />
<output id="list"></output>
<script>
function handleFileSelect(evt) {
var files = evt.target.files; // FileList object
// Loop through the FileList
for (var i = 0, f; f = files[i]; i++) {
var reader = new FileReader();
// Closure to capture the file information.
reader.onload = (function(theFile) {
return function(e) {
// Print the contents of the file
var span = document.createElement('span');
span.innerHTML = ['<p>',e.target.result,'</p>'].join('');
document.getElementById('list').insertBefore(span, null);
};
})(f);
// Read in the file
reader.readAsText(f);
// reader.readAsDataURL(f);
}
}
document.getElementById('files').addEventListener('change', handleFileSelect, false);
</script>
</body>
works great on firefox. I cannot get it to work in chromium. What am I missing?! thanks.
I’m using Chromium 18.0.1025.168 (Developer Build 134367 Linux) Ubuntu 11.10
For security reasons, to load local files I have to call chromium from the command line using:
ATENTION: you have to close all chromium windows for this to take effect.
Just lost about four hours because of this…