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Re: Show HN: Filepicker.io - dead simple file uploads

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Post by chrislomax »

brettcvz wrote: post #11
sosuke wrote: post #10

"Doesn't currently support Internet Explorer" Is this considered okay again? Best Viewed in [Netscape 3.0] or [Internet Explorer]

I wouldn't say we consider it ok by any means. But we'd rather get the feedback earlier than later, so we said screw it and sent it out

I presume your limitations are due to the drag drop file handling on the upload from computer?

I did something recently like this and ended up with an ugly "Select file" button when people are in IE.

I really hope IE are pulling their fingers out with IE10, it appears they are. We are getting a load of adverts in the UK now on Microsoft products, like Bing etc. It seems to me they are taking it seriously again.

Re: Show HN: Filepicker.io - dead simple file uploads

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Post by brettcvz »

Prospect wrote: post #22

Brett, This is great and I would pay to use it in a second if it could handle uploads on the iphone/ipad (something like http://www.aurigma.com/iphone/ ). I just signed up for the developer key. Will you be emailing that list with feature updates/news? Thanks

Good to know re. mobile.

Re. email, we'll be trying to limit the number of emails we send out to the lowest possible, but if there's interest we can create a separate mailing list that's higher volume for feature announcements, etc. over the coming week.

Re: Show HN: Filepicker.io - dead simple file uploads

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Post by brettcvz »

chrislomax wrote: post #21
brettcvz wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wouldn't say we consider it ok by any means. But we'd rather get the feedback earlier than later, so we said screw it and sent it out

I presume your limitations are due to the drag drop file handling on the upload from computer? I did something recently like this and ended up with an ugly "Select file" button when people are in IE. I really hope IE are pulling their fingers out with IE10, it appears they are. We are getting a load of adverts in the UK now on Microsoft products, like Bing etc. It seems to me they are taking it seriously again.

Actually the drag-drop isn't as big of a deal as cross-domain message passing. We'll likely end up having to use a flash fallback or similar, but last night as we were hacking on this we decided to punt for a day or two

Re: Show HN: Filepicker.io - dead simple file uploads

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Post by djMASHKO »

science_robot wrote: post #15

Why are 4 CS geniuses from MIT using their talents to build pretty file uploading UI? Pretty file upload UI is easy!

I think the point is that is will support pulling files from any service you use to store them - dropbox, facebook, your computer, skydrive, etc. It's much more than a pretty file upload UI, and the fact that it looks that simple is actually its greatest achievement.

Re: Show HN: Filepicker.io - dead simple file uploads

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Post by MortenK »

gramsey wrote: post #19
brettcvz wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wouldn't say we consider it ok by any means. But we'd rather get the feedback earlier than later, so we said screw it and sent it out

I don't have a problem with it. It's a MVP so the people trying it out won't be using IE either.

Except for the op?

Re: Show HN: Filepicker.io - dead simple file uploads

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Post by chc »

science_robot wrote: post #15

Why are 4 CS geniuses from MIT using their talents to build pretty file uploading UI? Pretty file upload UI is easy!

Putting images on a web page is easy, so we see images everywhere on the Web. If it were also easy, we would expect to see good file upload widgets everywhere. Good file upload widgets are not everywhere. From this, we can conclude that it is still an open problem.
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