Last modified: 2013-07-25 07:03:30 UTC
Created attachment 10084 [details] big photo for repro reported by Matthew Roth, I have what seems to be a reliable repro in Chrome and FF on OSX. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UploadWizard Drag the attached photo onto the "Drop media file to donate here" page. It is possible that the result will be a large image of the bike with no controls shown, stopping the upload process. This is the problem. It is possible that drag'n'dropping the image will succeed and show a thumbnail plus options like "Remove". If the display is normal, click the link for "Use old upload interface" (or whatever it's called, all my browsers are now showing the bug.) then click "Upload file" again in the sidebar to return to the https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UploadWizard page. Dragging the image onto the "Donate..." page should now render it large, with no controls visible, thus stopping the upload process.
also, the URL for the resulting image after dropping onto Special:UploadWizard is "file://...stumpjumper.jpg" on the local machine, and not a URL for commons
It looks like the drop target is pretty small; if you end up dropping too far outside the actual *button*, the browser will load the image directly into the browser window instead of passing it on to the web page's drag n drop handlers. Visual feedback on the drop target during drag operations would likely help here -- it's not obvious that you're meant to drop exactly *on* the button, as buttons don't normally behave that way.
We're changing the button text back to the original form which says 'select' and doesn't talk about drag-n-drop in r112517 When a better drag-n-drop experience is ready, we can advertise it more.
(In reply to comment #3) > When a better drag-n-drop experience is ready, we can advertise it more. Removing from 1.19 milestone.
I have submitted a patch for HTML5 drag and drop upload, and this issue would get solved through the patch. https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#change,3808
Ping to UW developers - patch available in gerrit, awaiting review.
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