Gmail like file upload with jQuery

Question

I would like to upload files just like google mail does. I would want to use jQuery and PHP to do it is there anyway of getting the progressbar etc.?

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Answer 1

in my opinion an excellent article on this topic: http://robertnyman.com/html5/fileapi-upload/fileapi-upload.html

unfortunately support is lacking for IE and Opera, but hopefully this will change.