Darn google deleted a post when they restored or did work last night. So this is a retype.
At a website a client wanted to login and upload a file. The site ran a small applet to browse and select his desired files(s) which looked like a standard windows dialogue. It seemed to allow him to at first to traverse his network and select the file. But we had the following problems:
Chrome: The applet would show some network drives in a drop down, but as soon as you selected one, it said he had to authenticate to that (local) server, but no authorization would actually succeeed. Boo.
Workaround: Use IE
IE8: The same diagoue box would let him select and go to the network drives, but double clicking or otherwise selecting the file would not wind up populating the ultimate box for the files to upload.
Workaround: copy file to desktop or somewhere on his local pc, then use the applet to select the file.
XP:The applet worked fine.
Our thinking is the applet or dialgue box controls might have worked had we been give a chance to "run as administrator" but that opportunity wasn't really present.
CONCLUSION
Developers need to accommodate the "complexities" of OSes like Win7.
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