On 9.7.2007, at 12.44, BeeRich wrote:
On Jul 9, 5:32 am, Jarkko Laine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Cheer up, mate. If your time is so valuable, I don't think it's worth spending too much of it flaming people who are trying to help you and others. You might be too busy to apply a new technology right now, but never spending a day or two to learn new things is bound to shorten your career quite a bit, considering the speed at which things are evolving in our field.I would think everybody's time is valuable. Second, I'm not flaming anybody.
Well, I guess that's debatable but you did spend a whole lot of lines ranting about Peter's mail even though he explicitly stated he was "Not trying to convert you to a Flash based solution here, but just pointing out some of the upsides of such a solution to other readers on the list." Aside of that, you said: "If anybody has that amount of time kicking around (even more than 1 day), then their time management is a bit questionable." That might sound a bit insulting to people trying to find the best solution to their problems and to keep on the nerve of things.
Third, spending a day or two to support something as different as Flash, is simply building a house of cards. This is a regular topic that comes up, and people easily adopt third party solutions without knowing how to service the chunks of code that they put into their systems. Once they realize it's close, but has issues in their application, they have gone live and realize their app has a major hole in it, of which they have little skill to fix, without hiring someone to do it for them.
I was talking about learning and exploring, not implementing something head first.
Also, I'm sure hackers will appreciate your attitude of putting as much responsibility as possible on the user. Like Peter said, you might take a big hit on the server if people try to upload too big files, keeping a server process or thread busy during the whole upload time before you can do anything about it.Try filtering the div upon submit. Second, you also assume my application is open to spammers. You never thought this might be in a business application on an intranet?
OK, I was a bit off there. However, I was not talking about your specific application but trying to point out there is a huge difference between checking the file size on the client vs the server side. Whether it's hackers or stupid users is not the point.
I fully understand a Flash uploader might not be feasible in your current project (or any of them). But responding in a very negative tone (you might not have meant that, it's just how it got out to me) to a post where a fellow community member tries to help you and other members isn't very productive in my book.
Cheers, //jarkko -- Jarkko Laine http://jlaine.net http://dotherightthing.com http://www.railsecommerce.com http://odesign.fi
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