File upload is a standard
part of the HTML 3.2
Reference Specification published by the
World Wide Web Consortium.
This capability allows users to submit arbitrary files, text
and binary, to Web sites. Without it, (in the absence of
special programming), the only information a user can submit
from a Web page is text entered into input fields. Web
resources such as the Shadow Server cannot function without
file upload, as there is no other way to transmit
the original image to which the shadow is to be added.
By mid-1997, any browser claiming to be up-to-date with the state of the Web must, as a bare minimum, implement the HTML 3.2 specification, in most cases agumented by various commonly-used extensions originally introduced as proprietary features by various browser developers. Users should, one would think, be reasonably confident their browsers could upload files. Such naïve confidence is betrayed, as is so often the case, by Microsoft.
Microsoft Internet Explorer (“Internet Exploder”) version 3.0, claims
to fully implement the HTML 3.2 standard. Further, its
documentation names file upload as a supported feature.
Guess what? It flat doesn't work. So, if you're using Internet
Exploder 3.0 or some other version that doesn't know file upload from
fish entrails, you won't be able to use the Shadow Server. Why not
replace that chock full 'o bugs, security-hole-riddled mound of
garbage with a browser whose developer treats their customers with
some degree of respect instead of feeding on their frustration
and lost productivity?