Chad wrote:
Reading a bit more into that, I'm not convinced it's practical. Almost all of the information I'm reading has been negative, just to quote a few:
I'd say it's a feature not easy to get running.
Obviously, it doesn't work on fastCGI.
It reports to be fixed
Tricky to realise, but it's obvious it has to be like that. If you add the hidden field after the file, you won't get it until the file loading is complete.
The problem to use it on WMF server is that each subsequent request for the upload status would need to go to the same server handling the upload.
http://pecl.php.net/package/uploadprogress seems a better option, but should be rewritten to use memcached instead of a nfs folder.