Yikes, how the months go by! I really need to get into the habit of posting more.
Last week the Firefox Companion for Kodak EasyShare Gallery (also known as Fotofox, the name under which it was community-tested) was officially released. As one of my non-places responsibilities involves partner repacks, I played a small role in its launch. And although I didn’t write the extension, it’s very gratifying to see it on Wired’s top 10 list of Firefox extensions! (Right next to an interview with Shaver. Woo!)
Fotofox, I think, is definitely a step in the right direction for us. Having to leave the browser to batch-upload photos to web sites feels very cumbersome to me. Coming into the Firefox world, this was one of the things I really wanted to see improved, and I’m glad to see we are taking action :)
Fotofox doesn’t solve everything, of course, and I’d like to see other photo uploading ideas prototyped. My immediate complaints are a) I want a smaller interface, something I could leave open without it owning half my browser, and b) the ability to resize my photos as they are uploaded (so I can drag and drop photos straight from iPhoto or even my camera). My photo workflow currently involves using a plugin to iPhoto to upload directly to my flickr page, but personally I’d rather queue up the uploads on my browser window.
Next time I upload some photos (which I really ought to do soon, it’s been ages), I’ll experiment with Fotofox. Sadly, I lost my camera on my last trip, it fell out of my pocket on the plane and was never found. So I have nothing recent to put up :(