New “Express Upload” Option for Trip Journal Photos
Earlier this year, I wrote about speed vs quality in uploading photos to your online Trip Journal or blog.
Recent upgrades to the MyTripJournal system allow you to upload many more photos, faster, to your online trip journal than before. In my next few posts, I will discuss the three photo upload options and the pros and cons of each.
The “Express Upload” option can be used by all travelers. It’s similar to components used by Facebook and MySpace (and made by the same supplier).
With the Express Upload, your photos are converted to a low-resolution JPG to display on a computer screen. The decreased file size allows them to be uploaded very fast, but they are rarely suitable for good quality prints. Note that, as with all photo uploads, actual elapsed time will depend on a number of other factors such as your internet connection speed, your ISP’s hardware and load on your host’s servers.
There are two versions of the photo upload component, depending on which web browser you are using. The fastest is the ActiveX version attached to Microsoft Internet Explorer. The Java version is compatible with most other browsers, including Firefox, Safari and Google Chrome, and also provides excellent upload speeds.
All other factors being equal, some Mac users may find the Java version to be slower than it is for Windows users. The supplier’s technical staff explain that “performance loss on Mac is given by java script event handlers. It means that if you have a lot of java script code launched from events fired by Image Uploader, it works slower. It is limitation of Mac platform.” We have done our best to minimize this issue for Mac users and understand that Aurigma is also working to optimize the upload process in Mac.
Next post: Hi-Res Upload option
Dan Parlow
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