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Re: External image directory
Try out Flock – it has built in photo sharing capabilities.
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Re: External image directory
Flock is a browser that doesn’t even support Textpattern but supports the ‘big names’ like MT and WP, Flickr, Myspace etc, so OK if you’re into any of those but has nothing to do with whether the path for the images directory can go external to another server. And still no clarification of my question
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Hi Peter. There was a new plugin recently which dealt with your question but had to do with files rather than images. I forgot its name but I know it was released in the past couple of months. Currently most servers offer ample space to host the textual and presentational content of websites. The problem for most of us though is not that of space but that of bandwidth. I found that images, if treated in photoshop/image ready, can take negligible space- sometimes smaller to some of the javascript libraries which are so popular recently.There’s of course google and youtube for those who work with video. Your forecast of …and downloads will be virtually instantaneous is unfortunately not very realistic as the world does not necessarily follow the tecnologies offered by Western/Northern Europe, North America or Asian countries like Japan. Most of Africa for example is still unconnected whereas the Middle East still has relatively slow and expensive isp packages.
I can understand how online storage can be useful, especially for backup purposes and textdrive I think, offers a service already.
Maybe… haven’t investigated it as I wouldn’t know how…. a hacked version of ied_if_domain and the aforementioned plugin might offer the basis for a solution.
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zero wrote:
Flock is a browser that doesn’t even support Textpattern but supports the ‘big names’ like MT and WP, Flickr, Myspace etc…
Yes, you can use Flock with Textpattern – Tom confirms it.
Also, check out Windows Live Writer – tested by RPBirt and it does work with TxP.
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Colak: I think you might mean smd_remote_file
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Yiannis and Stuart – Bloke’s plugin is great! Now if the same could be done for images…
I think it IS realistic to have instant downloads very soon. They have fibre into homes in Paris and one or two other cities around the world. It’s fibre under the Atlantic. And there’s a main fibre running the length of the UK but not for the ‘last mile’, of course, but that will come. Yes it will only be in developed countries and the underdeveloped will lag further behind no doubt :-(
There are many storage sites offering ‘unlimited’ bandwidth. How the storage landscape will change I don’t know but access to files from any hardware from any place seems inevitable. So if txp can connect to images in a similar manner to Bloke’s plugin, it will help futureproof it.
Bert – glad to hear that about Flock. I’ll check out Live Writer too. Not that I have a need for these things, or need a workaround right now. An external image directory connection is just a feature idea.
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zero wrote:
Bloke’s plugin is great! Now if the same could be done for images…
Thanks for the thumbs up. It was Ruud’s idea that got me going; he’s the genius, I’m merely the messenger.
I very nearly replied here after Ruud’s initial response but held off. I can tell you I did consider making smd_remote_file image-capable but decided not to because of the current technical barriers. That and the fact images have awkward inherent properties like thumbnails and sizes and two types of ‘caption’, plus there were no obvious hooks in the TextPattern core that I could latch onto.
smd_remote_file only works because you take the onus of uploading and managing remote content yourself, outside TXP. From the posts here it seems you are interested in setting a TXP pref to point at a remote image directory and being able to upload files in lieu of the local server, yes? Unfortunately, with all the third-party account creation / verification / logging in / session management / yahde yahde I can’t see that being viable at present.
So currently I agree with Ruud that it’s a nigh-on zero likelihood of seeing it any time soon. But further down the line it may be possible to work towards utilising the vast array of storage that companies are throwing at us in a similar vein to the way smd_remote_file does.
Of course, the question of whether we should be transparently putting all our lives online for the googlebot or msnbot (or worse) to harvest away on a disk/tape archive for 12+ months is a different matter entirely…
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Bloke wrote:
From the posts here it seems you are interested in setting a TXP pref to point at a remote image directory and being able to upload files in lieu of the local server, yes?
Yes, that’s what I meant, Stef. Thanks for the explanation. It makes sense to me now as to why it’s currently impossible (almost).
Of course, the question of whether we should be transparently putting all our lives online for the googlebot or msnbot (or worse) to harvest away on a disk/tape archive for 12+ months is a different matter entirely…
Yes, most people probably won’t give it a second thought …
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