St Patricks Day If the Empire Had Won

Irish Storm Troop Well I was cruising for new feeds an I came across the flickr blog which had a nice bit of cognitive dissonance as you see above. Oh and I installed WP 2.5 and I wanted to try it out. Then I discovered that image uploads for a great many installs are broken in 2.5 including this site. I have also noticed some bugs with the editor like adding paragraphs breaks when I did not. Overall 2.5 has a far more organized than 2.3 and maintains compatibility with all the plugins that I use. I also like the plugin that fixes the image upload. I am not sure why we would need a flash based uploader anyway:

< ?php
/*
Plugin Name: No Flash Uploader
Version: 1.0
Plugin URI: http://dd32.id.au/
Description: Disables the Flash Uploader of 2.5
Author: Dion Hulse
Author URI: http://dd32.id.au/
*/
 
add_filter( 'flash_uploader', 'noflashuploader' );
function noflashuploader() {
return false;
}
 
?>
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2 Responses to “St Patricks Day If the Empire Had Won”

  1. Doug Says:

    There was much contention on the wp-hackers mailing list in re: Flash uploader. The upshot is that they wanted multiple upload capabilities, a progress bar and a few other fiddly bits.

    Other than that, how are you liking 2.5? You really need to install Ozh’s Admin Menu Drop Down CSS. It makes interacting with the admin a MUCH nicer experience.

  2. DD32 Says:

    I am not sure why we would need a flash based uploader anyway

    Better experience for the majorty of users basically.

    For those on slower connections uploading larger files, it also presents a progress bar, which is something that is needed to show users that theres an upload in progress.

    Its a shame that so many web server setups have security in place to prevent such uploads, and that the flash plugin has to be so tempramental on different OS’s..

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