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About bloody time! I'm amazed it's taken them this long to do something about that awful photo uploader, when photos are surely one of their killer apps. The nu
by dtf 17y ago
About bloody time! I'm amazed it's taken them this long to do something about that awful photo uploader, when photos are surely one of their killer apps. The number of (unanswered) complaints on their forum about this issue must run into tens of thousands.
But did it seriously require a complete rewrite instead of just fixing that woefully buggy Java applet? And could they really not have achieved this new implementation with Gears or YBP? They're rather vague on what was missing from those plugins, and I remember Google stating that they supported decent file upload functionality (including drag and drop) just fine.
- liuliu 17y agoMy guess is the preview. Other plugins seem less concern about preview files.
- diN0bot 17y agointeresting. i use a mac. do other operating systems not show previews while browsing for files?
- Bluem00 17y agoFacebook couldn't fix it because they just licensed the old Java/ActiveX uploader from a company named Aurigma. Even though Aurigma would give you the source if you paid them enough, you didn't get any ownership over it. When Facebook first started, it was probably the right choice for them, because photo uploading wasn't their focus, but now that they are huge, the improved ability to iterate the design is probably worth it.
- 146 17y agoRemember that they have to resize the picture files before uploading them to the Haystack. That's computation you want to push as much to the client side as possible.