Hey Aaron,
Incredible timing. I have been working on FTP for the last week or so. I
have been making it more robust by making asynchronous. This has actually
speed up the throughput a bit (at least 7 percent but as much at 26%). I
will be landing these changes sometime this year assuming that everything
goes okay in the next week of testing.
I share the same wish that FTP have a better interface. At the very
minimum, there should be a two pane view so that one can drag and drop
between their local system and the ftp site. What kind of interface designs
have you been working on? Do you have any mockups? I can help
some/point-you-in-the-right-direction with your specific project, however my
main hope is that the mozilla browser gain a better interface - possible
leverage what you are doing?
To make your life, as well as Bill Law's (who wrote the unknown content type
handler), much easier, I would like to see necko provide a higher level
interface for downloading. Maybe something like this exists already, but
clearly it is apparent to most people. Leveraging on this higher level
interface, we should build a download manager and scheduler. This is not
too much work, most of which can be written in js.
People that are interested, maybe we should spin up a mailing list for this?
Aaron Andersen wrote:
> I have been working on the Tranzilla Project, which is an FTP client
> written in XUL (tranzilla.mozdev.org). While I know the XUL required to
> write the UI, I don't know anything about how to make the program
> actually work. I need to figure out how to login to FTP servers,
> transfer files, and perform various file functions, all within a XUL
> application. I have been told that this would be a good place to
> start. Is there anyone who would be interested in helping with the
> project, showing me how to do this, or at giving me some hints? If
> anyone knows of any documentation that could help, please send the URL.
>
> Aaron Andersen
> www.xulplanet.com
