Why can't you
drag-and-drop files onto file upload controls on web forms? It's a complete mystery. I've seen more than one extension
for Firefox that fixes this glaring omission, but
Drag
and Drop Upload, does that and a little more: It also supports dropping more than one file onto a form. If there's
more than one file input, you can fill them all by dropping several files at the same time, and on some sites, notably
Gmail, it'll even dynamically create more file fields to accommodate all the files. Brilliant!
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Subscribe to commentsDannyJun 8th 2007 8:21AM
Hi,
I am looking for an ActiveX control that allows drag drop upload from a web browser.
May I have the link to Rad Inc, please?
Thanks.
ScottJan 10th 2006 9:56AM
This is fantastic, although a little rough. It worked in Yahoo Mail, but in gmail it wouldn't dynamically create the additional slots. If I opened them, though, one drag would pull the files right in, which is just short of amazing. Unfortunately, it also scatters their order.
Still, it's about 80% of a miracle!
Chiral SoftwareJan 29th 2006 6:04PM
The way upload works in browser is clunky. It has been the same clunky system for a long long time. Fortunately there are some solutions out there that don't require a Firefox plug in, and work on all browsers. We have a drag-and-drop upload solution which works as a Java applet, which you can try out at: http://chiralsoftware.net/drag-and-drop-file-upload.html. It lets you drag an entire folder of files onto the web browser and have them all uploaded. A company called Rad Inc also makes a similar product. So there are options out there to fix this. The future of web services is going to be a lot more web application type services which may use JavaScript or Java applets to blur the distinction between a web site and a desktop application. This is a good thing.