While working on a React project, I noticed abyssal performances on Safari only.
It took me some time to figure out, but the culprit was the use of absolute positioning.
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File upload on android for JavaScript app
2016-08-04
Disclaimer: I had to implement this solution because of some imperatives (coder life…), but this is not good programming practice. Hopefully Android 5 will let us do it properly.
I have a web application that shares the code on desktop, iOS and Android.
Everything works fine, except that Android does not support <input type="file"> in WebView out of the box. While iOS will happily show an image
picker if the accept attributes is set to image types, Android’s WebView
will just do nothing.