You'll see stuff like this leveraging Flash, because Flash is an application on the end user's computers that have permissions to view user's files on their computer, which is driving that "preview" functionality
JavaScript wouldn't have the ability to do anything with the file location "C:\Users\Steve\Desktop\glacier1.jpg" One it's up on the web, then it could do stuff with it, but not until then On Jul 16, 10:15 pm, donb <falconwatc...@comcast.net> wrote: > What was I smoking when I wrote that? No, the site that had the > 'nice' uploader was: > > http://www.element-it.com/Examples/MultiPowUpload/ThumbnailsViewerHTM... > > "Nice" in that it let's me select several files at once and has a > scrolling region previewing all the pending uploads. But it looks > hidious. And being a commercial product, advancement of it is > destined to be a long, slow endeavor. > > On Jul 16, 9:34 pm, donb <falconwatc...@comcast.net> wrote: > > > Seems the preview aspect is being a real bugger - I don't see anyone > > successfully doing it with any of the current crop of jquery > > uploaders. > > > There are a number of sites doing it, such as box.net which I think is > > quite a nice one. > > > I found some info on the matter here: > > >http://blog.flexexamples.com/2008/08/25/previewing-an-image-before-up... > > > I have Flash 8 and found it nigh onto impossible to do anything > > useful. I wrestled with it for a time and finally quit, as it just > > seemed so retarded AND it liked to randomly crash before I saved my > > work. > > > So I'm very resistant to getting a Flash 10 upgrade. I'm hoping > > there's someone smarter than me tackling this monster. > > > Is that the case? Anyone? > > > tnx, > > > Don
