Dec. 16, 2011.
We've blogged at MyOpera for years. Today we recognised that it does not allow us to upload any photos when using an iPad. Ever heard of cross-load from a URL?
Normally, we'd categorise these failures under "Your money isn't good enough"... but MyOpera isn't charging us any money for hosting our blogs. Their benefit is the publicity and some advertisement. I guess we need a new category.
The iPad has been around for a couple years now. It's a tablet "PC" running iOS, a version of Apple's MacOSX. Consumer apps on this device live in their own sandbox, and only very special applications get to reach out of that container.
Web browsers obey that limitation: they cannot read from other containers like the Photos app, even though both the Photos app and the Safari browser are preinstalled and built by Apple themselves. Side effect: no uploading to web sites.
See a bigger version of this picture (96KB).
So what can a web site do to accommodate?
Well, you could allow for a cross-load: have the visitor provide a web address that points to the photo of their choice, and load that into their photo album. It's a trivial bit of programming.
Tumblr allows for cross loads:
Hit the image for a bigger version (122KB)
MyOpera failing to implement a cross-load after several years of the existence of the iPad, combined with the reputation of Opera SA, the manufacturor of the Opera Web Browser, as evangelists to open the web to any browser on any device, results in us rewarding them a Failure Note in the category, "Your Money Isn't Good Enough".
And we will be switching our blogging to a competitor.
The iPad has been around for a couple years now. It's a tablet "PC" running iOS, a version of Apple's MacOSX. Consumer apps on this device live in their own sandbox, and only very special applications get to reach out of that container.
Web browsers obey that limitation: they cannot read from other containers like the Photos app, even though both the Photos app and the Safari browser are preinstalled and built by Apple themselves. Side effect: no uploading to web sites.
See a bigger version of this picture (96KB).
So what can a web site do to accommodate?
Well, you could allow for a cross-load: have the visitor provide a web address that points to the photo of their choice, and load that into their photo album. It's a trivial bit of programming.
Tumblr allows for cross loads:
Hit the image for a bigger version (122KB)
MyOpera failing to implement a cross-load after several years of the existence of the iPad, combined with the reputation of Opera SA, the manufacturor of the Opera Web Browser, as evangelists to open the web to any browser on any device, results in us rewarding them a Failure Note in the category, "Your Money Isn't Good Enough".
And we will be switching our blogging to a competitor.
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