The recent Java update (45) on Mac continues to be broken with respect to drag & drop but now adds a disabled GetFile function. JFileUpload no longer shows folders in the GetFile UI so it is now impossible to upload a file because one cannot navigate to the target file. Pretty soon, all of our Mac u...

Apple continues to acknowledge this issue in my bug reporter.apple.com submissions saying that it is a known issue. They've been doing this since 10.6 (Snow Leopard). I am now on 10.8 (Mountain Lion) and Safari 6. Today, I updated to the Oracle-supplied Java 7 Update 6 and re-tested our server. We n...

Our authentication required podcasting server uses JFile Upload for all uploaded files (video, audio, PDF, ePub). MacOS X 10.6,7 &8 users cannot use the drag and drop part of the UI. They are compelled to use the less intuitive (to them) GetFile interface instead. I have filed this bug with Apple on...

Having received an acknowledgement from Apple engineering that the Drag & Drop feature of JFileUpload being broken in MacOS X 10.7 (Lion) was " a known problem," I had expected today's (11/9/11) Java update to have fixed it. My initial testing indicates that this has NOT been fixed. What happens is ...

MacOS X 10.7 (Lion) has apparently introduced new Java rules that break JFileUpload. In my testing on a fresh install of this OS, I had to download the Java VM seperately. The applet also has to be "activated." However, doing all this was to no avail as I cannot drag and drop a file on the UI. Whate...

MacOS X 10.7 (Lion) has apparently introduced new Java rules that break JFileUpload. In my testing on a fresh install of this OS, I had to download the Java VM seperately. The applet also has to be "activated." However, doing all this was to no avail as I cannot drag and drop a file on the UI. Whate...