The latest Uploader behaviour

[Eli Cochran]

My understanding was that both would come up at the same time, not  
that the OS dialog would come up before the Uploader dialog.

I don't find it confusing to have both open at the same time. In fact  
once you are familiar with how the Uploader works, it seems that it  
makes more sense to have the both dialogs open as the OS File browser  
should be seen as an extension of the Uploader dialog.

- Eli



On May 30, 2008, at 1:44 PM, Erin Yu wrote:

> 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
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Eli Cochran
user interaction developer
ETS, UC Berkeley