How To Implement Gmail Like File Upload/attachment Using Html 5

I remember some options where Ajax like(No post back world) file upload was supported, Hidden iframe Using flash object (Though i still have curiosity of why SWF is used ? and wh

Solution 1:

I could be wrong, but I think the only help that HTML5 gives for such an upload-pattern is that it supports the attribute 'multiple' for upload fields. This allows you to select multiple files from the file-chooser dialog without using flash . The uploading itself still has to be done by JS or PHP or [yourfavorite]. A nice helper could be

http://code.google.com/p/jquery-html5-upload/

for example.