[pLog-svn] Improved file uploads in LT

Jon Daley plogworld at jon.limedaley.com
Thu Aug 23 05:46:55 EDT 2007


 	Yes, I agree with that.  Their server isn't setup to receive the 
"plain" upload.

On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, Oscar Renalias wrote:

> I think the problem is not in the Flash side because it *does* degrade
> nicely when Flash or Javascript are not enabled. I think the problem
> is on the receiving side, because what you're getting is a PHP error
> and not a Flash or Javascript error. The PHP script that receives the
> uploads probably has somethong wrong with it, but I will know more
> when I download and play with this.
>
> Regarding the screen space, as far as I know everything is
> customizable via CSS so that should not be a problem.
>
> Oscar
>
> On 8/23/07, Reto Hugi <plog at hugi.to> wrote:
>> I like the idea/concept as well, but it *should* degrade gracefully as
>> adverticed. And it uses quite much screen space, but that might be
>> configurable....
>>
>> Is it just the demo that fails to degrade?
>>
>> On 08/22/2007 03:38 PM, Oscar Renalias wrote:
>>> I recently noticed that Flickr is using an improved file upload
>>> process where you can select more than one file in the same pop-up
>>> window (with Ctrl+click for example), there's a nice progress bar for
>>> each one of the files, and so on, so I started to look around and I
>>> found this:
>>>
>>> http://swfupload.mammon.se/index.php
>>>
>>> It's built in Flash (requires Flash 8 at least) and is a much nicer
>>> way to upload files... Try the demo, it's pretty cool.
>>>
>>> What do you people think? For those who have some sort of prejudice
>>> against Flash, there'd a parameter to force to disable this, but for
>>> the rest, I think this could be a great usability improvement.
>>>
>>> It's licensed under the MIT license so it should be ok to use this in
>>> a GPL application.
>>>
>>> Oscar
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