Thanks everyone for all of your comments - I've been off looking at these various choices, learning a bit about java/flash this morning. I was not able to get http://www.radinks.com/upload/dnd.php to work. It seems that even with the demo I have access privilege issues. Ariel, when you run the demo are you able to see your dropped files in the demo area? I get a message about the names of the files uploaded, and some stuff like this "Files have not been saved, please edit upload.php to match your configuration". Anyway, just curious if it works for you or if you didn't try it.
Javier - I took a look at http://swfupload.org/ and that is indeed very nice looking. I have not used flash yet so I think I will take this as an opportunity to figure out what that can do for me and try using it. Kmike - the gears thing seems promising but I am frankly still having trouble figuring out what it does. Does your code actually upload files via drag and drop? I will try downloading your code and see if I can figure it out from that, just haven't had a chance yet. Anyway, thanks to all of your for your insights. It seems like not having this functionality is a huge impediment in making a web app look and feel like a desktop app. I'm trying to write a web app that will allow people to manage and discuss their tasks associated with chip design, and my users' first response is always "Can I drag and drop my images like I do with Outlook?". It is amazing to me that we are so far from having an easy solution for this in the web app world, I have to believe all of the social networking sights would love to have drag and drop images. Ok, so I will continue diving into your various suggestions for now ... thanks! Margie On Oct 23, 11:50 am, Javier Guerra <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Ariel Nunez <[email protected]> wrote: > > I found this while googling: "drag and drop upload": > > >http://www.radinks.com/upload/dnd.php > > > Seems to use a combination of Java (applet) + PHP (server) and is not > > open source. > > i tried this one several years ago. unfortunately, can't recommend > it. even with corporate clients, it's a nightmare to keep the applet > with enough access privileges to read the dropped files. almost any > small update on the client machine, and the Java system asked (again) > to authorize it. i have yet to find a single user that could > understand what it was asking, and why. and once it's disabled on a > machine, it's very hard to enable again. > > the server doesn't have to be PHP, in fact it's usually FTP. the PHP > part is mostly to set the options for the <object> tag > > -- > Javier --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
