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Review my weekend HTML5 project: DropMocks

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Re: Review my weekend HTML5 project: DropMocks

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Post by andreyf »

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

Auto-pull, auto-push, etc.

Also, to my phone. When I take a picture on my phone, I want it to sync to a dropbox folder.

Also, with facebook. I want each of my picture galleries to sync with a mock (and, optionally, to a dropbox).

Let's say a mock is synced with both dropbox and facebook. Then adding a file to the folder locally on a machine, it should push to mock, then from mock to facebook.

Re: Review my weekend HTML5 project: DropMocks

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Post by gmurphy »

spicyj wrote: post #6

Please add Safari 5 to the browser sniffer. (It works fine if I change the User-Agent to "Chrome 6", so presumably it should be included in the list of browsers that you support.)

Safari 5, at least on Windows, doesn't support the File and FileReader APIs which are necessary for the drag and drop uploader. If you've seen otherwise, please let me know (I love the Safari team, and don't want to be unfair to them).

Nightly WebKit builds may work.

Re: Review my weekend HTML5 project: DropMocks

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Post by patrickaljord »

TamDenholm wrote: post #7

I love this, the drag especially, i've never seen the "just drag" file upload thing before without flash/java. It'd be really nice to see a drag file upload replace the typical file form input. Excellent job.

Gmail had it for almost a year.

Re: Review my weekend HTML5 project: DropMocks

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Post by gmurphy »

I didn't realize submission text would be eaten for external links, so here it is:

I had an itch to scratch around making it easy to share sets of images with other designers and thought that I could use the new drag and drop file support to solve it. DropMocks was the result after a quick weekend of hacking.

It's built on a simple Python App Engine backend, and the uploader relies on the PushState, File, and FileReader APIs (I realize that some of these aren't strictly HTML5), so uploads currently only work in Chrome 6+ and Firefox 3.6+; supporting other browsers would be the first post-hack step if I were to take it further.

An example gallery can be found here, it should be viewable in all modern browsers: http://www.dropmocks.com/mSER

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