firefox file-upload broken?

[Mike Wright]

brian wrote:
> On 09/08/2009 06:38 PM, Mike Wright wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> F10, firefox-3.0.13. Don't know if this is a firefox or fedora firefox 
>> bug.
>>
>> Any web developers out there???
>>
>> Given this html:
>>
>> <form><input type='file' /></form>
>>
>> View that in the browser and you will see an input text box with a
>> "Browse" button.
>>
>> Click inside the text box.
>>
>> If your experience matches mine it will act as if the "Browse" button
>> has been pressed and a "File Open" dialog box opens. That is broken with
>> a capital F!
> 
> How so?
>
Hi Brian, thanks for listening to my observations.

Maybe I'm missing something here but, imho, if I focus on a text box and 
a "browse the filesystem" event occurs, that is a bug, no?  Otherwise, 
what is the purpose of the text input box in an "input type='file'" anyway?

Been working on a project using Prototype.js and this left me with the 
feeling that some observer had intercepted the wrong event.