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Whenever I have to drop images on a webpage see something happen, I close the tab. I don't have a bunch of images lying around that have the right size and tha

by VMG 15y ago

Whenever I have to drop images on a webpage see something happen, I close the tab. I don't have a bunch of images lying around that have the right size and that I'd feel comfortable sharing.

paulirish 15y ago
It's all clientside, so there's no risk here of sharing. But it's cool, hombre. Here's what someone else just made with it http://twitpic.com/8kyup2 http://twitpic.com/8kyup2
- VMG 15y ago
  I can't know that the files aren't transferred somewhere without thoroughly inspecting the source and it isn't obvious from the page that this is an offline app. Thanks for the example. It would be great if the page itself linked to some demonstrations.
  - NanoWar 15y ago
    It has (now) the following in the top bar: "Drag + Drop, Client-side, Animated GIF Creator"
    - brk 15y ago
      Ah, yeah, so now it's totally safe because it says so right there on the page. The points raised in higher-up comments are still relevant... It's impossible to know for sure exactly what will happen with my images that I Drag n Drop. Of course, for a 24 hour effort, it's great. But this is the 80/20 rule at play. The first 80% was the "easy" bit. Now you have to create some demoes, tutorials, earn user trust, etc. I don't have a lot of need for animated GIFs personally, but this seems like a neat little tool.
chimeracoder 15y ago
I find it annoying as well, because I use a tiling window manager, which makes opening a file manager just to drag & drop annoying - not a whole lot more, but just enough that it's not really worth it. I don't mind having that as the default, but at least give people an option to select files the old-fashioned way, and make it easy to find within ~5 or ~10 seconds of looking at the page... Imgur does this well, if you ask me - support for drag & drop, menu, and copy/pasting URL.
- literalusername 15y ago
  I use a tiling WM too (ratpoison), so I empathize. But you don't need to launch a file manager in order to drag and drop. You can open the image file in another browser tab, and then drag it between tabs. Hover over the destination tab for a moment to pop it forward. Edit: It would be useful to make an addon that adds a contextual menu item for "Drop file here", which raises a file selection dialog and delivers the result to the drop zone. Essentially it would be the inverse of this: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ez-drag-n-drop/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ez-drag-n-dro... I don't currently have the time to write it.
  - gcb 15y ago
    Totally offtopic... But i need to know, Why ratpoison on this day and age?
    - fuzzix 15y ago
      "Why ratpoison on this day and age?" There's no expiry date on a productive workflow. Why not ratpoison?
      - literalusername 15y ago
        fuzzix said it best. Long ago I configured ratpoison to be modal like vi, with tons of personal customizations. I've set it up to behave exactly like I'd want any WM to, so what's the use of moving to something newer?
wouterinho 15y ago
Same here, a small demo or a gallery of sorts would help a lot here. Impressive that you did this in 24 hours, good job!

by VMG 15y ago

Whenever I have to drop images on a webpage see something happen, I close the tab. I don't have a bunch of images lying around that have the right size and that I'd feel comfortable sharing.

paulirish 15y ago

It's all clientside, so there's no risk here of sharing. But it's cool, hombre. Here's what someone else just made with it http://twitpic.com/8kyup2 http://twitpic.com/8kyup2

VMG 15y ago
I can't know that the files aren't transferred somewhere without thoroughly inspecting the source and it isn't obvious from the page that this is an offline app. Thanks for the example. It would be great if the page itself linked to some demonstrations.
- NanoWar 15y ago
  It has (now) the following in the top bar: "Drag + Drop, Client-side, Animated GIF Creator"
  - brk 15y ago
    Ah, yeah, so now it's totally safe because it says so right there on the page. The points raised in higher-up comments are still relevant... It's impossible to know for sure exactly what will happen with my images that I Drag n Drop. Of course, for a 24 hour effort, it's great. But this is the 80/20 rule at play. The first 80% was the "easy" bit. Now you have to create some demoes, tutorials, earn user trust, etc. I don't have a lot of need for animated GIFs personally, but this seems like a neat little tool.

chimeracoder 15y ago

I find it annoying as well, because I use a tiling window manager, which makes opening a file manager just to drag & drop annoying - not a whole lot more, but just enough that it's not really worth it. I don't mind having that as the default, but at least give people an option to select files the old-fashioned way, and make it easy to find within ~5 or ~10 seconds of looking at the page... Imgur does this well, if you ask me - support for drag & drop, menu, and copy/pasting URL.

literalusername 15y ago
I use a tiling WM too (ratpoison), so I empathize. But you don't need to launch a file manager in order to drag and drop. You can open the image file in another browser tab, and then drag it between tabs. Hover over the destination tab for a moment to pop it forward. Edit: It would be useful to make an addon that adds a contextual menu item for "Drop file here", which raises a file selection dialog and delivers the result to the drop zone. Essentially it would be the inverse of this: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ez-drag-n-drop/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ez-drag-n-dro... I don't currently have the time to write it.
- gcb 15y ago
  Totally offtopic... But i need to know, Why ratpoison on this day and age?
  - fuzzix 15y ago
    "Why ratpoison on this day and age?" There's no expiry date on a productive workflow. Why not ratpoison?
    - literalusername 15y ago
      fuzzix said it best. Long ago I configured ratpoison to be modal like vi, with tons of personal customizations. I've set it up to behave exactly like I'd want any WM to, so what's the use of moving to something newer?

wouterinho 15y ago

Same here, a small demo or a gallery of sorts would help a lot here. Impressive that you did this in 24 hours, good job!