Clicking on file input elements doesn't show file dialog

[obuchtala]

In the browser and node-webkit it is possible to trigger file dialogs using input elements.
When I add e.g.

    <input type='file'></input>

to the hello-atom example, atom-shell does not react on clicks onto this element.

Is that considered to be supported someday?
This way, the code for a web-only and a natively embedded version could be kept more similar.

Apart from this, I realise and appreciate the API approach for dialogs.

[as3boyan]

https://github.com/atom/atom-shell/blob/master/docs/api/dialog.md

[obuchtala]

Yes, I know the dialog API.

FWIW, in the browser you can use https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLInputElement to trigger a native dialog.

My question is if such will be supported or not.

After switching to atom-shell, we need to support two different approaches: one based on the Web File System API and one using atom-shell's and node.js's fs API. And that duality is the focus of this issue.

[zcbenz]

It is currently not supported and will be supported in future.

[jhleath]

Does this mean that file dropzones also do not work in Atom Shell, currently? If not, will they be available once file inputs are fixed?

[natevw]

Interestingly, under v0.16.3 at least, I find the file input element does support dropping a file onto the little broken stub it leaves — filename appears next to broken button, 'change' event fires, my original JS code can .send() the file… so unless I'm basically just seeing the "future support" in progress halfway, I'm having some trouble understanding why just the visual side is broken?