[Building Sakai] Sakai 3 and WebDAV or other mass file upload options

[Eli Cochran]

Sakai 3 is currently using the Fluid Multi-File Uploader. While this is not a drag and drop solution it does allow the user to easily upload multiple files at the same time. 

However, the Fluid Uploader uses Flash to achieve its magic and because it is Flash-based it has some issues especially around accessibility. There are some better implementations of a Flash-based multi-file Uploader but they all struggle to work around the limitations imposed by Flash. 

There are some very nice Java based multi-file uploaders. We dismissed these as an option on Fluid because we felt that Java's security dialogs are just too scary for most users. 

So multi-file upload via the browser continues to be problematic. 

One glimmer of hope is HTML5 which implements a native multi-file upload form object. It should be possible to build some nice UI around this functionality. The question is when *and if* Microsoft supports this functionality.

- Eli 

 


On Mar 1, 2010, at 8:52 AM, Keli Sato Amann wrote:

> Hello
> Given the issues with WebDAV for Sakai 2.x, I was wondering if the same issues will occur with Sakai 3? If so, are there other ways to enable mass uploading of files by drag and drop, that doesn't rely on third party applications?
> 
> Keli Amann
> User Experience Specialist
> Academic Computing Services, Stanford University
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Eli Cochran
user interaction developer
ETS, UC Berkeley