To save others from digging through numerous old conversations (many with out-dated info), it’d be great if folks could chime in here with your thoughts and recommendations for people who need features/capabilities beyond the currently built-in WebFileUploader as of the beginning of 2017.
Just as a refresher, some of the concerns and issues people have raised over the past several years:
- Drag and drop into the browser to upload
- Uploading multiple files simultaneously, started individual or simultaneously
- Customizing/hiding the default button
- Tracking/displaying progress for multiple simultaneous uploads
- Upload speed slower than it should be
- Memory issues for large files (uploading directly to disk)
- Restarting interrupted uploads
Past recommendations/discussions for dealing with some of the above:
- Make the button invisible or whatever you want ( https://www.mbsplugins.de/archive/2014-02-03/Tip_of_the_day_Invisible_WebFi )
- Tweak the look: https://forum.xojo.com/33849-web-file-uploader-questions/0
- Daniel Taylor’s Web Custom Controls (covered most of the above, but site not updated in 2+ years? http://webcustomcontrols.com/ )
- More on tweaking the look: https://www.mbsplugins.de/archive/2014-02-03/Tip_of_the_day_Invisible_WebFi
- Keep waiting for a better version in an update (possibly related to new framework)
- Generic wrapper for newer jquery stuff (I know I saw this a while back, but lost the link)
- Write Your Own from scratch (possibly using some javascript/html5 tricks)
Many of those recommendations are several years old and none seemed to get a real consensus even back then…
What have I missed, and what are people’s current thoughts?