Comments on: Clean drag and drop upload in Safari http://www.borismus.com/clean-drag-and-drop-upload-in-safari/ Software Designer Tue, 27 Jul 2010 06:00:35 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Brian Hogan http://www.borismus.com/clean-drag-and-drop-upload-in-safari/comment-page-1/#comment-62 Brian Hogan Thu, 06 Aug 2009 23:14:57 +0000 http://www.borismus.com/?p=156#comment-62 Opps... It didn't do the code... mousemove = "document.getElementById('container').style.display = 'none';" onblur = "document.getElementById('container').style.display = '';" Opps… It didn’t do the code…

mousemove = “document.getElementById(‘container’).style.display = ‘none’;”

onblur = “document.getElementById(‘container’).style.display = ”;”

]]> By: Brian Hogan http://www.borismus.com/clean-drag-and-drop-upload-in-safari/comment-page-1/#comment-61 Brian Hogan Thu, 06 Aug 2009 23:14:11 +0000 http://www.borismus.com/?p=156#comment-61 Awesome! Your code helps me a ton on a project I'm building. You wanted to know how a person could click on your link? What about adding this to your body tag? This way, when you move your mouse inside Safari the container hides. But, when you click on a file outside of Safari (to grab a file) the container shows up. Since you're dragging a file over the Safari window it still won't have notice a mouse move. When you let go to drop the file it'll go to your container. As soon as Safari gets focus back the container goes away. I suppose onfocus may be better (but keep in mind you'd have to have an onload with the same code, since onfocus doesn't seem to trigger on a refresh)? Anyway, just thought you'd like to know. Thanks again for your code! Awesome! Your code helps me a ton on a project I’m building. You wanted to know how a person could click on your link? What about adding this to your body tag?

This way, when you move your mouse inside Safari the container hides.
But, when you click on a file outside of Safari (to grab a file) the container shows up. Since you’re dragging a file over the Safari window it still won’t have notice a mouse move. When you let go to drop the file it’ll go to your container. As soon as Safari gets focus back the container goes away. I suppose onfocus may be better (but keep in mind you’d have to have an onload with the same code, since onfocus doesn’t seem to trigger on a refresh)? Anyway, just thought you’d like to know.

Thanks again for your code!

]]> By: Boris http://www.borismus.com/clean-drag-and-drop-upload-in-safari/comment-page-1/#comment-26 Boris Sat, 28 Feb 2009 05:25:31 +0000 http://www.borismus.com/?p=156#comment-26 Thanks Sean! I see where you're coming from, but the convenience of being able to access your application from anywhere is still very appealing to me. For this reason I have a slight bias against desktop apps, as my mac isn't always with me. On the other hand, native mobile apps don't suffer from this, and I greatly prefer native iPhone wrappers around web services like twitter and facebook. Writing an app that feels like a Mac app is a difficult task, but at least there is a target to aim for. I find that the problem with web app design is that it's much harder to pin down exactly what a web app should feel like. Thanks Sean! I see where you’re coming from, but the convenience of being able to access your application from anywhere is still very appealing to me. For this reason I have a slight bias against desktop apps, as my mac isn’t always with me. On the other hand, native mobile apps don’t suffer from this, and I greatly prefer native iPhone wrappers around web services like twitter and facebook.

Writing an app that feels like a Mac app is a difficult task, but at least there is a target to aim for. I find that the problem with web app design is that it’s much harder to pin down exactly what a web app should feel like.

]]> By: Sean http://www.borismus.com/clean-drag-and-drop-upload-in-safari/comment-page-1/#comment-24 Sean Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:18:23 +0000 http://www.borismus.com/?p=156#comment-24 Cool hack. The problem with web apps as rich applications is that there are a ton of little things like this that don't quite work, that require hacks like this to work around. Even when developing desktop apps, there are all kinds of little things that you have to get right to really fit in with the system (eg to "feel like a Mac app"). The model of a desktop app communicating with a server via some API seems to me to be an easier way to get the benefits of web apps along with the benefits of feeling like a native app. Clearly some rich web apps can work, but I'm personally much more likely to pick a desktop app than a web app for something I use a lot. Cool hack. The problem with web apps as rich applications is that there are a ton of little things like this that don’t quite work, that require hacks like this to work around. Even when developing desktop apps, there are all kinds of little things that you have to get right to really fit in with the system (eg to “feel like a Mac app”).

The model of a desktop app communicating with a server via some API seems to me to be an easier way to get the benefits of web apps along with the benefits of feeling like a native app.

Clearly some rich web apps can work, but I’m personally much more likely to pick a desktop app than a web app for something I use a lot.

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