I would bet my retirement account, that the vast majority of Dolphin sites, have members that would rather get things done in a hurry. I don't know of a single Dolphin site that is using the platform for a professional photography or art site... those folks use gallery scripts. Social networking users go on vacation, plug their camera into their computer with a usb cable, and upload a ton of hi res photos. I have never once, heard anyone I know on Facebook, complain about client side photo resizing. see more In the demo I referenced, it took 5 seconds to upload a 5.2MB photo. Uploading the same photo to my D7 site, took 80 seconds.

I have no Idea what you are talking about when you say "browser resizing is not yet supported by all browsers". I'm not sure how Facebooks resizing works, but I expect it's a combination of javascript and a hidden flash app.... just like my demo. To the best of my knowledge, just about every browser supports flash and JS.

You don't need a lot of settings for photo uploads:

Resize Images: [ ] Yes [ ] No
Max dimension in px: 1024

You pass two variables to the uploader.... that's it.

As far as cropping, rotation, and all that other stuff..... leave that for a third party integration like AndreyP's photo editing using pixlr.com

Implementing this in 7.1 is a lot easier than you think Andrew.... especially if you keep swfupload. Their version 2.5 has this already built in. Although they call it a Beta, I can attest that it is essentially bug free. The folks at swfupload even have code examples, so there's no big learning curve here.

Speedy uploads would make a lot of people happy around here.



OH..BTW...................Please refrain from mentioning Avatars in serious conversations such as this one. This post is talking about 4096 x 3072 images, and really doesn't have much to do with a 64px thumbnail.