On Tue, 9 May 2000, Mark Guzdial wrote:
> These are nice ideas!
>
> The drag-and-drop version IS possible -- there is WebDAV, and there
> are WebDAV clients out there that make an upload-friendly website
> look like a mounted disk. We just need WebDAV support in ComSwiki...
I still prefer a browser-only solution. Netscape isn't going to support it
even in 5.0. But as an option, that would be okay.
> One thing that we keep tossing around is the possibility of making
> page-specific upload areas. This would decrease the size of the
> upload page and make it easier to install an upload link on a
> specific page (i.e., when you hit the Attachments button, you go to a
> page-specific upload area, and since we know the page you came from,
> we can insert a link to the new file at the bottom of the page). It
> makes it a little harder to have global attachments, though.
There could be a "keep local to page" option in the upload page. Global
files would be stored in uploads/, while page local files would go into
subdirectories named after the page number, like uploads/25/. When
serving, the swiki would first look into the page directory and then into
the global directory for a matching filename.
-- Bert
