Rad Upload 3.12 Released

Rad Inks has announced availability of Rad Upload 3.12, which makes it easier and faster for web developers to upload content to their web servers.

One of the most difficult aspects of designing a content management system or a file sharing application is to create the file upload component. With the new version of Rad Upload, the user can select any number of files and folders, drag them and drop them on her browser to start the upload.

However, if the files chosen contain more data than the webmaster is willing to process, the user will be immediately notified of the fact and the upload abandoned.

With traditional upload systems these safety checks are not available. Excess data can only be rejected at the server side. That means with conventional upload forms, the data is posted to the server regardless of it’s size.

Testing and possible rejection happens only afterwards, leading to an utter waste of time and bandwidth.

There are other ways in which the webmaster can make life easier for the user (and for himself) with this software. Specially if the web site is an image hosting or photo printing site. Many such sites only want images to be uploaded; Rad Upload can easily be setup to reject anything other than images.

Certain web applications that deal with images need to re-size them. the conventional approach is to upload the files first and re-size them on the server. Because images with large dimensions have large sizes, it takes longer to upload them. With Rad Upload, the images can be re-sized at the sending end, reducing the bandwidth consumption, upload time and the load on the server’s hardware. The other significant bandwidth saving measure is the software’s ability to compress files before the upload begins. This can lead to a reduction of upload times by 50-70% (depending on the content).

Follow this link to download the Lite Edition.