Re: upload progress (was www.soongy.com)

On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 7:45 AM, Boyd, Todd M. <tmboyd1@ccis.edu> wrote: > Gears will allow you to do a lot of things. So will site-proprietary Firefox extensions that go > well outside the realm of basic client-server interaction via webpages. I was under the impression > that Gears requires a local installation of their client library in order to work. > > I don't think "download this new extension so you can upload files to our site" > is going to go over so well. Of course not, but a) browsers don't have it built-in, yet (I was working on trying to make a "standard" that I could pitch to browser creators) b) how do you think the flash or java applets got there anyway? :) Have a standard upload form. Tell people if they want more advanced multi-file support, progress support, etc, etc, install Gears as well. To me, Gears should be something just like Flash and Java... and I think is lighter-weight and allows for extending browser capabilities across nearly every platform without learning new languages.