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Ask YC: Dealing With Flash10 Upload

So Flash10 has broken flash uploaders on a lot of sites and apps including wordpress, flickr, publictivity, vimeo, and more. This applies mostly to SWFUpload library. More background here: http://www.centernetworks.com/flash-10-uploading-swfupload Has anyone found a good work around or have any suggestions? Some say make an image or flash based button. Least thing I want to do is revert to something else.

callmeed 18y ago
We ran into this. Our website admin uses SWFUpload and broke. But our ecommerce service for photography (nextproof.com) uses a Flex upload component and still works fine. So, I think we're gonna move towards using the Flex one for now. You can find it here: http://weblog.cahlan.com/2006/12/flex-upload-component.html http://weblog.cahlan.com/2006/12/flex-upload-component.html You can download the Flex SDK from Adobe (free) and compile it via terminal on a Mac. Other than that, we have an alternate upload screen with 10 html file fields.
jdowdell 18y ago
The key is that file dialogs now only appear in response to a direct user action, not a mouseclick. The old utilities will need to change to reflect this. More info on the reasons for the change: http://theflashblog.com/?p=463 http://theflashblog.com/?p=463 Info on how we at Adobe fell down in identifying non-customers who would be affected: http://blogs.adobe.com/jd/2008/10/alerting_customers_of_customer.html http://blogs.adobe.com/jd/2008/10/alerting_customers_of_cust... jd/adobe