Re: user barrier - ambiguity about "content" vs "upload content from file"

[boud]

hi again,

On Sat, 3 Feb 2007, Dmitry Borodaenko wrote:

> On 2/2/07, boud <address@hidden> wrote:
> > the http://samizdat.axxs.org demo site :)
>
> Nice one ;-)
>
> (...)
> > His/her natural interpretation, based on the idealised logical axiom
> > that A==A, or "content" == "content", is that the box for uploading a
> > file is intending for uploading *text* from a file.
>
> And they might be right: it used to be possible to upload texts, too.
> I just tried that and found that it no longer works due to a bug that
> I'll try to fix.
>
> One other thing that used to confuse people here was that they assumed
> that upload was in addition to the text, not in place of it. Whatever
> text we choose, we need to make sure we don't reintroduce this
> confusion.
>
> How about something like this:
>
> "Alternatively, upload a file (formats supported: %s)", where %s is
> formed from config['format'].

Well, i guess so.

BTW, i don't know much about all the various video formats but i think
that quite a few people upload .mov movies, so we should probably add
whatever its mimetype is.

cheers
boud



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