Alternative Technologies
The lack of support for multiple-file selection has led developers to search for alternative solutions. These solutions have in common that they do not use the input type="file" element.
One solution is to use a Java applet. An example of this is JUpload. It allows selection of multiple files within its file browser as well as offering a file-type filter.
Another more recent solution is Filepicker.io, which provides a Javascript library and several HTML widgets for dealing with common problems uploading files, such as file-type filtering, progress bars, and handling large files (greater than 1GB).
Two Flash-based file-upload utilities are FancyUpload (MooTools) and Uploadify (jQuery). Both allow selection of multiple files as well as offering a file-type filter.
Several implementations of Flash-based file-upload utilities stopped working for users as they upgraded to Adobe Flash Player 10 released October 2008.
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