Review my weekend HTML5 project: DropMocks • Hacker News Board

Re: Review my weekend HTML5 project: DropMocks

#91

Post by muon » Sat, Sep 18, 2010, 10:38 AM UTC

Like it because of simplicity, I like this more than flickr slideshow.

Re: Review my weekend HTML5 project: DropMocks

#92

Post by johnnytee » Sat, Sep 18, 2010, 11:53 AM UTC

you should use the blobstore api to break the 1MB limit. Also check out the new high performance image serving service @ http://j.mp/9UvNyZ

cool project

Re: Review my weekend HTML5 project: DropMocks

#93

Post by amitvjtimub » Sat, Sep 18, 2010, 11:59 AM UTC

js4all wrote: post #85

I am really impressed. Clean and simple to use. I can't believe that this is a weekend project. I am currently studying your code. Thanks for making it available.

These kind of weekend projects make me feel insignificant. But then I see that author is on Chrome UI team so he is familiar with technology required (App Engine, Chrome HTML5).

Without that context it is just magic(and even then idea and implementation is great). But I think there must be something many of us can do in a weekend that will look like magic. But it was possible because of months/years of experience.

Re: Review my weekend HTML5 project: DropMocks

#94

Post by marknutter » Sat, Sep 18, 2010, 12:44 PM UTC

Weekend?

Re: Review my weekend HTML5 project: DropMocks

#95

Post by laverick » Sat, Sep 18, 2010, 1:18 PM UTC

gmurphy wrote: post #18

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 FileRea…

nice work!

Re: Review my weekend HTML5 project: DropMocks

#96

Post by jhrobert » Sat, Sep 18, 2010, 2:18 PM UTC

Simplicity wins. Very nice indeed.

Privacy can be an issue if the secret url leaks. Maybe a visit count/log (to detect leaks) and a (change) option (to get a new url and close the previous one).

Re: Review my weekend HTML5 project: DropMocks

#97

Post by stephencelis » Sat, Sep 18, 2010, 3:39 PM 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/

FYI, WebKit-based browsers aren't passing your browser sniffer (drag-drop works in them, too).

Re: Review my weekend HTML5 project: DropMocks

#98

Post by c0un7d0wn » Sat, Sep 18, 2010, 4:06 PM UTC

drag+drop not working on firefox 4. It does work with gmail.

Re: Review my weekend HTML5 project: DropMocks

#99

Post by Blackymetal » Sat, Sep 18, 2010, 4:26 PM UTC

mgkimsal wrote: post #42

pretty slick :) I created a client-side image shrinker - demo at http://kimsal.com/shrinker - github at http://github.com/mgkimsal/jsclientshrinker Perhaps integrating this functionality for images that are 'too big' (whatever file size you decide) would be a nice enhancement? :)

definitely i'm gonna try your lib.

Re: Review my weekend HTML5 project: DropMocks

#100

Post by Blackymetal » Sat, Sep 18, 2010, 4:29 PM 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/

this is pretty cool too, i'm gonna try it.