Wow! Ok, that is cool. There is also a reference down in the comment section about how to do this with a new API that will be coming out in Firefox 3.6. IE, this is without gears:
http://www.thecssninja.com/javascript/drag-and-drop-upload This also looks very interesting and the comments in this seem to echo what I was saying about badly needing this functionality to move towards a web app that feels like a desktop app. Ok, I'm off to figure this all out - thanks so much guys! Margie On Oct 23, 2:33 pm, kmike <[email protected]> wrote: > No, my code doesn't do that, sorry for not expressing this clear. > > Here is the example of drag-n-drop images upload: > > http://www.appelsiini.net/2009/10/drag-and-drop-file-upload-with-goog... > > And here is the corresponding API documentation: > > http://code.google.com/intl/ru/apis/gears/api_desktop.html > > On 24 окт, 03:22, Margie Roginski <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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 gethttp://www.radinks.com/upload/dnd.phptowork. > > 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 athttp://swfupload.org/andthat 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
