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1. The default file chooser on windows is horrible. 2. With multiple monitors, multiple desktops, etc, quite often people will have their working files open an
by eterm 13y ago
1. The default file chooser on windows is horrible.
2. With multiple monitors, multiple desktops, etc, quite often people will have their working files open anyway.
3. You can drag a picture straight from another open browser tab so it never needs to touch your browser.
4. Most sites give a choice of either method.
5. It's a fairly intuitive action. I know that I caught older family members struggling when they used to drag images and then the image would display in their browser. At this point they thought the photo was online and would be confused when they couldn't then find it on the site when they came back to it later.
- rfnslyr 13y ago>1. The default file chooser on windows is horrible. It's really not though. I've never had a problem with it.
- hrabago 13y agoI've always thought it was better than Finder, and is still one of the few things I miss from Windows. I could go into why I feel this way but I don't want to go off on yet a other tangent away from the main topic.
- Groxx 13y ago6. file pickers are frequently modal, so you can't do anything in other tabs while trying to find a file.
- solstice 13y agoFlashfolders for Windows adds a small bar on top of open/save dialogs and makes them sooo much more convenient: - go directly to currently open explorer window! - paste path! - two-click favourite folders - two-click history - switch to most recent folder (lasts through restarts) loads at startup, consumes 2MB of RAM and doesn't slow my 2005 XP laptop down at all