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Zachery · #49 03-15-2014, 12:55 AM

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Originally Posted by joeychgo

Zack, is there any reason to think this fix doesn't solve the problem? If not, then why not add it back with this fix?

It may solve today's problems, but not tomorrow, or the day after, or the day after.

There have been a long and sordid history with the flash uploader, and YUI's security of flash scripts. The YUI devs themselves have abandoned the script.

We can address the changes with something like relying on the HTML5 constructs of modern browsers instead by adding a simple MULTIPLE line to the input. That'd be the fix we'd go with, without adding another issue into the mix.

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