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Re: Review my weekend HTML5 project: DropMocks

#21

Post by alexcharlie » Sat, Sep 18, 2010, 1:10 AM UTC

The images left and right of the current one distract from what should be the focus. Doesn't work well for sharing small image files.

Re: Review my weekend HTML5 project: DropMocks

#22

Post by sidyadav » Sat, Sep 18, 2010, 1:13 AM UTC

Amazing idea and execution. Great work.

Re: Review my weekend HTML5 project: DropMocks

#23

Post by gmurphy » Sat, Sep 18, 2010, 1:30 AM UTC

daleharvey wrote: post #19

didnt pass my browser sniffer, firefox 3.6 on ubuntu, but I know that supports drag and drop uploads, I wrote an image uploader the other week http://dropup.net/

That's strange - my Firefox 3.6.6 on Ubuntu works with it OK. I wonder if the browser detect script I'm using is having issues, as another poster said that Chromium was failing, where it doesn't on my machines :\

Cool domain name; wish I'd thought of something that short.

Re: Review my weekend HTML5 project: DropMocks

#24

Post by clistctrl » Sat, Sep 18, 2010, 1:36 AM UTC

I'd pay you $24 a year (what i currently give to flikr) if you can compress my large jpg images into something smaller (currently it seems to be maxed at 900k) another one of my favorite features of Flikr is the ability to view exif data.

Love the project!

Re: Review my weekend HTML5 project: DropMocks

#25

Post by daok » Sat, Sep 18, 2010, 1:46 AM UTC

Very great! Love the easy way to use it without having to log in to try. Simple approach. Keep working on the idea.

Re: Review my weekend HTML5 project: DropMocks

#26

Post by arfrank » Sat, Sep 18, 2010, 1:52 AM UTC

How are you determining which browsers are compatible with it? It seems like the best way might be to use modernizr: http://www.modernizr.com/. Or are you using more than just the html5 drag and drop API?

Re: Review my weekend HTML5 project: DropMocks

#27

Post by atomical » Sat, Sep 18, 2010, 2:02 AM UTC

My pictures were too big. > 900k.

Re: Review my weekend HTML5 project: DropMocks

#28

Post by arfrank » Sat, Sep 18, 2010, 2:06 AM UTC

arfrank wrote: post #26

How are you determining which browsers are compatible with it? It seems like the best way might be to use modernizr: http://www.modernizr.com/ . Or are you using more than just the html5 drag and drop API?

Looking at the code you just posted it looks like this is what you did:

// HAMLET HAMLET HAMLET

function isValidBrowser() {

  var browser = BrowserDetect.browser;
  var version = BrowserDetect.version;

  return (
    (browser == 'Chrome' && version >= 6) ||
    (browser == 'Firefox' && version >= 3.6)
  );
}

Re: Review my weekend HTML5 project: DropMocks

#29

Post by jaredstenquist » Sat, Sep 18, 2010, 2:09 AM UTC

I loved it. My only suggestion is making the non-focused images slightly opaque. I was left wondering if the severely blurred images were loading.

Re: Review my weekend HTML5 project: DropMocks

#30

Post by andreyf » Sat, Sep 18, 2010, 2:10 AM UTC

gmurphy wrote: post #9

andreyf wrote: post #8

Fucking brilliant! I'd love to hack on this... are you using app engine? Is it open source? In particular, you know what would make this rock*10^6? facebook/dropbox integration.

I would very much like to have this auto-pull from Dropbox folders; it is something for another weekend. I just posted the source: http://github.com/glenmurphy/dropmocks

Bah, instead of running my own app instance, do you mind if I make a Chrome extension on top of it, and you can push the code you like back into the running version?

Meta-question: if a Chrome extension uses significant server-side resources, should one ask the site host first? (legally, I think the answer is "no")