The other day I found myself in the positions of accepting the challenge of modifying the aspect of an input type=file”. What could I do? I work with a crazy designer (just kidding, he’s actually very skilled at what he does). I thought it wouldn’t be a big deal but the solution took me a little over two hours to develop (I was thinking when I started that it would take maybe at most half hour).
What I had to create was this:

The website was developed using MooTools 1.2, so I wanted to develop a solution based on this framework. After surfing the net to see what others have done to solve this, I got a couple of ideas about what problems I’d have to solve. (more…)




