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Did I just read this right "iOS 6 brings even better web browsing to your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch." .... "And when you’re posting a photo or video to eBay, Craigslist, or another site, you can take photos and video — or choose from your Camera Roll — without leaving Safari." mobile web just took a huge step forward if so.....

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This has been in HTML for almost 2 years now. Rather than being a step forward foe the mobile web, it shows how behind the mobile web is, as the two most dominant players in mobile only update their browsers once a year.

I'm guessing iOS6 doesn't add support for IndexedDB either. So we're stuck using the deprecated WebSQL until mid 2013 or later.

> it shows how behind the mobile web is, as the two most dominant players in mobile only update their browsers once a year.

As opposed to the desktop world where IE 8 is still your best-case minimum browser?

As opposed to the desktop where you can install any browser you want.

… which changes little because actual web developers have to support the worst-case browser for all of the millions of people who don't install a modern browser. For most of us who aren't running something like a Mac or browser nerd website, that means the latest version of IE available to Windows XP users.

Didn't realize until just now what a pain it is to post photos on craigslist, etc: take photo with camera/phone, sync with laptop, use laptop to post photo. That's probably the reason Instagram had traction. Is this already easy on Android?

There are Craigslist apps out there that work great. I used Craigslist Mobile last week (http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/craigslist-mobile-photo-previ...) to post a bunch of stuff without leaving my phone. Was super easy to use and fast.

Yep, it looks like Safari's getting upload support. Finally!

Ooh, if this means that even a file upload limited to photos is available then that makes my life a million times easier.

I really wouldn't call it a huge step forward for mobile web as much as it's a huge step forward for Apple.

For what it's worth, my BlackBerry Curve from 6+ years ago supported form uploads. Apple was just years behind on this.

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