Thanks for the clarification Ben.  Yea, we've changed things around
for our gstreamer export functionality to be just inbox-based.

FWIW, this library looks pretty useful, but it seems like details on
html5 uploading are pretty buggy right now (like loading the whole file
in memory even if chunking):

http://www.plupload.com/index.php

Chris

On Sat, 10
Dec 2011 13:59:42 +0100 Benjamin Wulff <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Chris,
> 
> I build a service that accepts chunked uploads (not in trunk by now). 
> However the client side is still missing. You sure remember I build a 
> proof-of-concept of a chunk upload client a longer time ago.
> The implementation was a Java Applet which we didn't go on with
> because of problems on Apple systems. Nowadays the HTML5 File and
> Blob API [1] are sayed to be in place, so an HTML5/JS chunk uploader
> could be build (without the need of applets or browser plugins like
> google gears). One notice: I'm not saying 'HTML5 is here and we can
> now happily build such a thing!'. The speced API has everything we
> need to do that. But a little research on the topic some time ago
> gave me the impression that it was still a question to what extend
> browsers implemented the spec (eg. implemented the File API but not
> the Blob part). Nevertheless, I think we should take on the endeavor
> of implementing an HTML5 chunk uploader because transfering big files
> will become more and more important for web applications in the near
> future which should force browsers to establish stable support for
> the File API.
> 
> Cheers,
> Benjamin
> 
> [1] http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/FileAPI/
> 
> PS: I can commit the upload module mid next week.
> 
> On 12/10/2011 12:09 AM, [email protected] wrote:
> > Ben,
> >
> > Last I had heard you were working on a large file upload applet or
> > something similar.  Did you ever nail this?
> >
> > Chris
> >
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