AJAX File Upload
Ok, so I looked into this a while ago, and had all the idea's in my head, but just never got around to putting something together. Some of the newer HTML5 File API's allow you to access the file contents (base64 is what we like) - by using the FileReader object. Unfortunately, not all browsers have support for it, so you would not be able to use it accross the board. There are a lot of resources on the topic. If interested, check out: http://www.html5rocks.com/tutorials/file/dndfiles/ and https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Using_files_from_web_applications . There is another plugin out there, which supports ajax uploads with IE, but unfortunately it's commercial; which is another reason I was keen to get this happening. So anyway, I've created a demo of this - which you can check out at: http://apex.oracle.com/pls/apex/f?p=45448:afu I used the following table to get started: CREATE TABLE PLUGIN_BLOB ( ID NUMBER NOT NULL , MIME_TYPE VARCHAR2(200) , FILENAME