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For Basecamp, probably the biggest compromise is that you can't upload files or photos from your browser. We're interested in exploring tools like PhoneGap (htt
by sstephenson 16y ago
For Basecamp, probably the biggest compromise is that you can't upload files or photos from your browser. We're interested in exploring tools like PhoneGap (http://phonegap.com/ http://phonegap.com/) for smoothing over the missing functionality.
- clojurerocks 16y agoIve been exploring phonegap appcelarator and rhomobile myself lately and have been settling more and more on rhomobile. Can you explain why you have been looking at phonegap instead? Im wondering if theres something about it i missed. That you.
- JBiserkov 16y ago>you can't upload files or photos from your (mobile) browser How come? Mobile browsers don't support it (for security reasons?) or it's slow/eats up precious bandwidth? Or am I misreading you completely.
- shubber 16y agoMobile browsers don't support it. I've never been clear on the reasons, except maybe that there's a tension with the carriers over airwave bandwidth. Honestly: there's a Javascript interface in mobile Safari to access the location sensors and, IIRC the accelerometer, but the camera is offlimits. On the other hand, the HTML interface is a mime-multipart form and a file upload - it's only convention that says "upload images only" - and the mobile platforms are very particular about access to files on the device. iOS for sure won't allow one app to touch the files of another.
- destraynor 16y agoHey Sam - Excellent work on the app. It's fantastic. A nice work around to the uploading files issue would be to piggyback your existing email solution. So after posting a message you could show a little "Attach files" link which would show an email address to mail the files to (or open a mail client if that makes more sense).