Question

I was trying to upload a photo on facebook using a browser with no flash, and could see that it didn’t work.

I am pretty confident in handling files and related issues using Php and have done some sites allowing users to upload and manage files (images, docs etc). But I never thought about the above flash approach. I googled a bit and saw that there are few scripts available on which I can look how it works using flash.

But my questions are, when I should decide to use flash for user uploads. What are the advantages of using this approach? or disadvantages?

Thanks

Answer 1

Depends on your audience: If you are pretty sure that your users have flash installed, there is nothing against it. It even gives some neat advantages, like:

• Upload of multiple files at once
• Progress bar while uploading
• Instant preview of uploaded media
• etc.