On 12/27/10 7:47 AM, Guillaume Paumier wrote:
Hi,
Le dimanche 26 décembre 2010 à 14:09 -0800, Brion Vibber a écrit :
I've checked in a quick tweak in r79029 that adds thumbnail previews of image files on Special:Upload before you submit the form, in browsers supporting the HTML 5 FileAPI [1] (such as the current stable releases of Firefox and Chrome).
Neat :)
Would it require a lot of work to also include these thumbnail previews to the file selection step of Special:UploadWizard?
Nope. It's designed explicitly so this should be easy. There are "frontend" and "backend" parts to every upload, that can be mixed and matched. I would be happy to help anyone who is interested.
HTML5 upload controls can show progress, so we can have real progress bars instead of just spinners. FileAPI can do things like previews and we could even implement the Firefogg-style upload-in-multiple-requests protocol, which might have other advantages.
But so far there's always something else to do that's more important. For better or worse we prioritized getting basic features to work with ancient browsers and relatively obscure browsers (and without using crutches like Flash) over using the cool features of modern ones.