Uploading files asynchronously with XMLHttpRequest is a neat trick on its own, but what I really wanted was a nice way to upload images from my phone and/or tablet. The problem with this is that technology is evolving quite rapidly these days and my smartphone has an 8 megapixel camera. 8 megapixel pictures averages around 2.2 MB on my iPhone 5 and Chrome (and others) defaults file uploads with XMLHttpRequest to 1 MB. Now, one can easily find their way around such limitations but then you just run straight into the arms of the next thing limiting your upload sizes; the web server. And even if you would change all the settings, to allow larger file uploads, you’d have to ask yourself if that’s what you really want. It wasn’t what I wanted. Uploading photos from my phone is awesome since…
