[Clipart] [Bug 4134] New: Clipart submission form improvement

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4134          
     
           Summary: Clipart submission form improvement
           Product: openclipart.org
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: website
        AssignedTo: clipart at lists.freedesktop.org
        ReportedBy: turnip at turnipspatch.com
OtherBugsDependingO 3974
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How can we improve this form: http://openclipart.org/cgi-bin/upload_svg.cgi ?

For context see: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3974#c47

Number 1: Move the file selector box to the top.
2: Do we need the user to specify the file type? Can this not be detected
automatically? (Bugzilla does it)
3: Could step 4 in the form be possibly replaced with an explanation that this
can be done through the image editor? I think people who are likely to specify
additional metadata are already likely to know they can do it in the editor, and
if not they will be willing to check it out.
4: The keywords bit could be more slick. The keywords list *could* be displayed
in the input boxes using a Google Suggest-like JS interface. I'm not sure how
complicated this would be to do though! I found this:
http://ajax.zervaas.com.au/examples/GoogleSuggestCloneJax/. Two other relatively
well known "ajax" (I feel dirty for saying that) libraries:
http://openrico.org/rico/home.page and http://www.modernmethod.com/sajax/. Oh,
and script.aculo.us is great: http://script.aculo.us/demos/ajax/autocompleter
That demo uses Rails though -- don't know how simple it is to do with
PHP/Perl/whatever we need.
4.1: At the very least I think the textboxes should each occupy a separate line
to make it simpler to look at!
5: "Author" field -- is this stored in cookie data? If not, it could easily be.
It's the little things...          
     
     
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