[wp-hackers] GSoC Project Feedback - File Uploader

[Jacob Gillespie]

Sweet... thanks!  Looks like a great starting point for revamping the core
uploader.  Neat to see drag-and-drop working, too.

Jacob

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 11:07 AM, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 11:05 AM, Jacob Gillespie <me at jacobwg.com> wrote:
> > Hello all...
> >
> > I'm currently working on my GSoC application and will have it posted to
> my
> > blog soon, but I wanted to get some preliminary feedback.
> >
> > I'm interested in working on the file uploader - getting a more
> > feature-filled uploader that can work with HTML5, drag-and-drop, etc.
> based
> > on browser support.
> >
> > I've done some research on file uploading for some of my past personal
> > projects, and these are a few of the existing open source projects I know
> > of, ranked roughly from most promising to least promising
> >
> >   1. Plupload - http://www.plupload.com/
> >   2. Uploadify - http://www.uploadify.com/
> >   3. Ajax Upload jQuery Plugin - http://valums.com/ajax-upload/
> >   4. jQuery File Upload - http://aquantum-demo.appspot.com/file-upload
> >   5. Some combination of swfupload (
> >   https://github.com/alexanmtz/jqswfupload,
> >   https://github.com/ifunk/swfupload-jquery-plugin)
> >
> > Are there any other file uploaders that I'm missing that would be good
> for
> > consideration?
> >
> > The task of choosing an uploader and integrating while keeping existing
> APIs
> > seems fairly straightforward - are there any potential challenges that I
> am
> > missing?
>
>
> I use the WPlupload plugin. It's awesome, works great. Highly recommend it.
>
> http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wplupload/
>
> -Otto
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