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States and behavior
No selection, chosen file, successful read, preview limit and read failure. Canceling the host picker keeps the existing document.
Keyboard
Tab reaches the native file input; activate it to open the host picker. Picker navigation and cancellation belong to the browser/OS.
Scope and adaptation
A working host adapter, not a drawn Windows 95 file dialog. A browser cannot enumerate arbitrary folders or guarantee native MRU/filter behavior. Only a user-selected file is read.
Sources
Microsoft preliminary guide (1995), chapters 7–8
Original implementation; system colors are represented by CSS variables. The default 13 px system-font stack is a readable browser adaptation. The 1995 source is preliminary, not a final product specification. Test the target browser and native host before shipping.