- Web Development Lexicon
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Set the wayback machine to "ouch". During the dot-com revolution of the late 90's, I developed a lexicon of web dev terms for my fellow teammates.
Flex File Management
One common entry on the list of "bad user experiences" is file manipulation.
Users are often expected to know where a transferred file was stored, or to navigate the ugly web 1.0 upload process, or know and understand the repetition required in posting multiple files for a single purpose...
I've made a few (Flex 2, Flex 3 - ActionScript 3) file management widgets by leveraging the Flash FileReference object, FileFilter object and/or extending the Flex UIComponent.
These are just screenshots of three different file management widgets I've written: