file input size issue in safari for multiple file selection

Question

I am experiencing inconsistencies with regard to multiple file upload in Safari 5.1 on Windows Vista (haven't tried other platforms). The input element has the multiple flag to allow selection of multiple files. The problem occurs when the user does actually select more then one file. In this case, each File has a size attribute of 0. If (still with the multiple flag), the user only chooses one file, the size attribute correctly contains the file size.

The problem can be seen in the following example. Test and view the output of both a single file selection and a multiple file selection. (You will need to reset between tests). JsFiddle Test

Does anyone know of a workaround?

Answer 1

IT's a Safari bug. No solution for the moment. here is the test i did http://jsfiddle.net/rHd26/6/

Answer 2

Workaround for us was to remove multiple option... we got file size of 0, but we also got bad filenames with leading strange character added to the filename. Maybe that is why we get 0 in the size: because the first property (filename) is not split correctly with the presence of that bad character at the end of the filename.