[Building Sakai] Drag and drop folder upload

[Matthew Jones]

Yea, here's the open ticket in Firefox which hasn't seen a ton of activity.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=846931
and the attribute is currently called webkitdirectory. This is kind of like
the split between audio recording where there was supposed to be a standard
on <device> but everyone came up with their own thing still.

I agree with John and Sam that as long as it's optional I don't have a
problem seeing it get in, but it might need additional work down the road
to support other browsers. I also don't like the concept of "drag and
drop", but it looks like it supports a kind of "click and select" which
this hopefully should also support.

http://html5-demos.appspot.com/static/html5storage/demos/upload_directory/index.html#


On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 12:56 PM, Cris J Holdorph <holdorph at unicon.net>wrote:

> "Firefox will follow within a few months".  While generally I would
> agree, if the point made earlier is correct at this functionality was
> first added to Chrome 21, then that was back in July of 2012.  It's been
> a lot more then a few months, if firefox still doesn't support it.
>
> ---- Cris J H
>
>
> On 12/11/2013 10:00 AM, Sam Ottenhoff wrote:
> > Right, if it is was core functionality, like posting a forum response,
> > then of course we support all possible browsers.  But if it's an
> > optional way to save time in Sakai that only works with recent browsers,
> > and it doesn't touch the existing core functionality, I don't see why we
> > would have a requirement to wait until all browsers support the
> > functionality.  Chrome will lead the way implementing new features like
> > this and Firefox will follow within a few months.  I don't see any
> > reason to pause on optional features to wait for the less-innovative
> > browser vendors.
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 11:52 AM, John Bush <jbush at anisakai.com
> > <mailto:jbush at anisakai.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     I don't see anything wrong with functionality working in one browser
> >     as long as there is another way to do the same activity in all
> >     browsers, and it doesn't break anything in another browser.
> >
> >     If we wait for everyone to support everything, we will always be
> >     innovating at a slow pace.  In fact, pushing the envelope a little is
> >     a good way to encourage other browsers to pick up the pace, or
> >     encourage people to switch using browsers that innovate at slower
> >     paces.
> >
> >     In fact the drag and drop feature already requires IE 10+.  So I
> don't
> >     believe Sakai 10 is really following the mantra of it has to support
> >     all major browsers.
> >
> >     On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 9:11 AM, Adam Marshall
> >     <adam.marshall at it.ox.ac.uk <mailto:adam.marshall at it.ox.ac.uk>>
> wrote:
> >      > Something that doesn't support all major browsers shouldn't
> >     really go into Sakai 10. Would you expect other browsers to catch up
> >     with Chrome at some point?
> >      >
> >      > adam
> >      >
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> >      > Subject: [Building Sakai] Drag and drop folder upload
> >      >
> >      > Hi everybody.
> >      >
> >      > I have spent some time researching how to extend the current Drag
> >     & Drop feature existing in trunk to allow folder uploading,
> >     something that is possible in Chrome browsers since version 21.
> >      >
> >      > I have documented the process in this JIRA:
> >      > https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-25455
> >      >
> >      > Before I continue working on this, I would be grateful if people
> >     could tell me their opinion about this and if they think it would be
> >     useful to have it in Sakai, having that currently is only supported
> >     by Chrome.
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