Uploader requirements

[Jacob Farber]

Do you have an in-depth map of how the selectors need to be nested?
I cant scrub mutch from the docs, and I cant depend on the uploader2.html
example b/c it doest explicitly define whats important and whats there just
for show.


On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 12:21 PM, Eli Cochran <eli at media.berkeley.edu>wrote:

> Assuming that someone uses our markup, there really is only one *required*selector and that is the container.
> That said, this is a complex component.
>
> Looking at it from another direction, it is three components: an Uploader,
> a Progressor, and a Scrolling widget. Plus, we're also trying to support a
> couple of different use cases which have different behaviors: inline and
> dialog.
>
> Our goal in building it is to expose pretty much every element with a
> selector so that a developer can use as diverse a markup as possible. But it
> does make for a very dense API.
>
> The API will feel more simplified in Uploader2 by the way we're breaking
> things up. Uploader will feel like a collection of pieces--making it much
> easier to customize just one part of the whole.
>
> But I'd love to look at simplifying it further, and as soon as we have
> Uploader2 in good shape, it might be worth thinking of ways to simplifying
> it with out sacrificing the user experience.
>
> - Eli
>
> P.S. I see one selector that we're not using anymore: "osModifierKey". And
> *Pause* may or may not be going away. And we added one: stateDisplay:
> "div:first". I'll stop now.
>
>
>
> On Oct 28, 2008, at 7:41 AM, Jacob Farber wrote:
>
> Hi Colin & Eli,Currently, the existing Uploader API docs list 25 different
> selectors that are required. I'm not sure if this holds true for Uploader 2,
> but if it does is there any way we could isolate what is absolutely required
> (e.g. a browse and  upload button) versus whats just nice to have
> (e.g. txtTotalFiles and txtTotalBytes), and if you don't include the
> niceties you simply don't get them? This way, people could build different
> levels of uploader functionality and experiences, as opposed to a single
> elaborate one.
> Just a thought.
> Jacob
>
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> Jacob Farber
> University of Toronto - ATRC
> Tel: (416) 946-3002
> www.fluidproject.org
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> Eli Cochran
> user interaction developer
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Jacob Farber
University of Toronto - ATRC
Tel: (416) 946-3002
www.fluidproject.org
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