The latest Uploader behaviour

Erin Yu erin.yu at utoronto.ca
Fri May 30 20:44:44 UTC 2008


Hi,

A quick note on the Uploader behaviour:

We (Eli, Daphne, and I) decided that when the user click on [Add  
files] button from the current context, the OS file system pops up  
right away, so the user can select the files right away rather than  
clicking on the [Browse files] button again.

Currently, when the user clicks on [Add files], both the upload dialog  
and the OS file system pop-up are shown (the OS dialog on top of the  
upload dialog). This is confusing to the users, because they can see  
there is something underneath the OS dialog, but they can't get to it.  
The correct behavior would be to only show the OS dialog first when  
they press [Add files], then show the upload dialog with the selected  
files.

With the code-freeze just minutes away, we will go with popping the  
upload dialog upon [Add files] press, and having the user click on  
[Browse files] to see the OS dialog - for this release. I'll enter a  
bug for the next release.

Thanks!
Erin