In a post on the Flickr Development Blog, Scott Schiller has revealed the company is "raising the bar on web uploads". He explained that in the early days, the Flickr website relied on a simple form that enabled only six file inputs; as the site grew, it moved to a Flash/HTML hybrid, for batch uploads. But Schiller said this system wasn't designed to tackle much beyond uploads, which has reinforced uploading and organisation as two separate actions when using Flickr's web-based UI.
Flickr's new uploader, said Schiller, is "pretty slick, and is more desktop application-like than ever before, [bringing] us closer to the idea of a one-stop 'upload and organise' experience". New features include: the ability to drag-and-drop files; EXIF thumbnails being shown in the UI almost immediately; a fluid photo grid that shows thumbnails and lightbox previews; inline editing of metadata and rotation; an editor panel for batch editing of information; and an info mode for quick overviews of pending edits.
