http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2009-March/018981.html

in a nutshell : deal with it, it won't go away

The original plan was to just have the filename. Unfortunately, it turns
out that if you do that, there are certain sites that break, because they
expect the path (and they expect a Windows path, no less). This is why
Opera and IE8 return a fake path -- not because HTML5 says to do it. In
fact I made HTML5 say it because they were doing it.

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/bug/bug/bug.js b/bug/bug/bug.js
index 955d408..964af78 100644
--- a/bug/bug/bug.js
+++ b/bug/bug/bug.js
@@ -186,7 +186,10 @@
                 });
             }
             $("input[type='file']", element).change(function() {
-                $("input[name='ignored']", element).val($(this).val());
+                // http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2009-March/018981.html
+                // in a nutshell : deal with it, it won't go away
+                var path = $(this).val().replace("C:\\fakepath\\","")
+                $("input[name='ignored']", element).val(path);
             });
             $.bug.current_step('attach');
             element.show();