HTML5 File API: get File object within FileReader callback

Question

With the new File API in Javascript you can read files in Javascript to create dataURLs to show clientside pictures clientside. I\'m wondering if you can reach the File obje

Answer 1

I already found a way. Maybe not better than the scope wrapper, but I think it's neater:

for ( var i=0; i

There is now a much easier (apparently faster) way (sync!) to get a file's data URL:

img.src = URL.createObjectURL(file);

Demo on http://jsfiddle.net/rudiedirkx/ZWMRd/8/show/ of both methods, and the original problem illustrated (drag multiple images and check the title tooltips).