291146 - inconsistency between form file value AND document.getElementById ?

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect)

Description

[jphincelin]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910

I have the following problem in Mozilla 1.7.3 and Firefox 1.0 on a Windows 2000
PC with a form containing an input type=file for the user wanting to display an
image from its own discs :
The user chooses a file, then a
document.getElementById('myPhoto').innerHTML="<img
src='"+document.foto.file.value+"'>" does NOT display the photo. 
To have it displayed, I must transform the value by inserting file:///C:/ etc
The problem does not exist in IE 6.

setup : Images are of course allowed
Any help ? Thanks

Reproducible: Always



Expected Results:  
the image should display without any regexp javascript

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

The value is a file path.  The src of an image is a URI.  On Windows, the two
use different path component separators.  So you will in fact have to do some
search-and-replace on the filepath to get a valid URI out of it...

If "you" is an extension, you can create a URI object from the file path
directly and get its spec, of course.