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The java applet is a backup for older browsers. If you have firefox 3.6 just drag photos directly onto an event page.

We'll expand support as soon as we can but we're at the mercy of the browsers here.

Only Firefox 3.6 supports dragging files onto a web page. Not available in chrome yet...

Why they failback on Java not G Gears?

Google is doing a poor job of supporting Google Gears, and they've made it clear that they're focussing on HTML5 from now on.

Did you guys create the java applet yourselves? Or is it something that you found somewhere?