Default File Types in inputFile Component

This is a two part question in regards to some usability issues with the inputFile component. First, I'm using the inputFile component to upload files; however I need to be able to default the allowed (or rather default) file types in the Browse window. Is there any way to do this?
If not, is there any way to manually create inputFile type logic? For example, could we use our own inputText field and commandButton to upload a file? I'm not sure this is possible with the inputText field being a String and the inputFile being an UploadedFile type.... I've seen the same question asked in a thread that asks about creating a style and translating the text for the Browse button, but no one had answered it at the time of this post.

.. playing around with this options it appears that browsers tend to ignore the accept attribute...
"The HTML 4.01 specification defines an accept attribute for use with input type="file" as follows:
which explaind by that the accept attribute only is a recommendation that browser vendors may or may not implement:
"This attribute specifies a comma-separated list of content types that a server processing this form will handle correctly. User agents may use this information to filter out non-conforming files when prompting a user to select files to be sent to the server.
Thus you could specify, for example, accept="image/gif,image/jpeg", if you are willing to get image files in GIF or JPEG format only. Browsers might use this information to set up the Browse menu so that only such files are selectable, at least initially"
[http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/forms/file.html]
Frank

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