Paul Buchheit's idea for better file uploads on browsers -- anyone want to pledge to or develop it?

http://micropledge.com/projects/better-file-upload-plugin

by rnc000 • 19 years ago

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micropledge.com

Jd2• 19 years ago

"I'm serious about this, and willing to pay quite a bit of money to make it happen."

$17 does not strike me as a lot of money.

Has anyone used and had success with this micropledge site?

ivankirigin• 19 years ago

It's very new.

benhoyt4• 19 years ago

"$17 does not strike me as a lot of money". True. Obviously Paul hasn't pledged yet. :-)

microPledge is only a few days post-launch, so success stories are low in numbers just yet. But of course we look forward to them coming in slowly but surely.

Jd2• 19 years ago

Ah, well good luck then. Tallyho!

mynameishere2• 19 years ago

http://jupload.sourceforge.net/applet-basic.html

Done.

Oh, right. No one likes Java. (I'm a little perplexed as to why the author defaulted to the nasty metal L&F).

benhoyt4• 19 years ago

For better or worse -- better, IMHO -- Buchheit's spec on his blog entry rules out Java. Quote: "Unfortunately, Java applets don't actually work, and after 11 years of not working, I'm not expecting that to change."

mynameishere2• 19 years ago

My experience is contrary to that. I've deployed applets to the general public with success. (No, not 100 percent, but the same can be said of javascript and flash.)

Try out the link for yourself, though.

daltonlp• 19 years ago

SWFUpload has worked awesomely for me:

http://labb.dev.mammon.se/swfupload/

benhoyt4• 19 years ago

That's pretty sweet! Good link -- I'll keep that in mind. (Though it doesn't do two of the things Paul was after: open a better file-select dialog, and do local data processing on the file before sending it.)

kingnothing• 19 years ago

Doesn't work in Opera on Ubuntu.

sbraford• 19 years ago

I don't get it -- Flash is already ubiquitous. Why does Paul want to boil the ocean?

Even multi-file Flash uploaders with progress bar indicators are free and plentiful. My favorite: http://www.element-it.com/MultiPowUpload.aspx

The only trick is getting Flash to pass session variables or some other way for the server to authenticate the user.

Paul Buchheit's idea for better file uploads on browsers -- anyone want to pledge to or develop it?

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