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That's all fine and dandy until you start caring about IE support. Even in IE9 the support isn't there. So while the "mask a file input && target a hidden iframe" is pretty archaic, it is (surprisingly) robust, and not too hard to implement.

[Note] compatibility data from: (http://caniuse.com/fileapi)

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Haha, you have a valid point, but how many authors using the svbtle platform are using IE at all? Svbtle is totally an author/editor feelgood platform.

Oh totally! The implementation I wrote recently is part of an app that still needs to support a non-negligible number or IE users, hence the "bias".

For sure, you totally hit the nail on the head - the solution presented for svbtle is not an optimal choice for a production, user-facing web application.

I find this jarring. Web development is all about bending over backwards for the different systems in place. Here we have an article on how they achieved a nice minimal process for uploading images for a closed system nobody will be able to use (to protect the image they're not releasing the system yet aren't they?).

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