473393 - allow resizing/downsampling image before uploading via HTML form

Status: NEW

(Core :: Layout: Form Controls, enhancement)

Description

[Richard Fairhurst]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080201 Firefox/2.0.0.12
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080201 Firefox/2.0.0.12

Many webapps (e.g. content management systems, virtual learning environments) provide the option for image upload via an HTTP form.

Digital cameras now offer resolution vastly in excess of most people's needs, and few novice users have (or understand how to use) Photoshop/GIMP/etc. to resize before uploading.

The result is that an upload may time out due to filesize, or the user may abort wondering why nothing appears to be happening.

When the user uploads an image file, Firefox could offer to resize to a manageable size - either chosen by the user using a control in the file upload dialog, or potentially even specified in the input element (though this would restrict its use to those site authors who are aware).

Reproducible: Didn't try




See related Thunderbird bug:
  https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=401991

though, in fact, mail servers are generally more tolerant of this than web uploads. (Mail.app on OS X also offers this functionality.)

See also related bug for KB software:
  https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=398762

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Might be worth bringing this up with the HTML working group as well.