The author thinks that anyone using a file picker with no preview thumbnails is doing it wrong. I think that anyone using a file picker is doing it wrong.
I frequently open files in projects that have tens of thousands of files scattered across thousands of directories. Any process for opening a file that involved navigating that directory hierarchy by clicking with a mouse would waste an enormous amount of time.
Well, for one using a file picker doesn't imply mouse usage and secondly, how would you do something like uploading a pdf or picture in your web browser?
I don't do that in my web browser. Instead I type a command in a shell that adds the file to a git repository, commits it, and syncs the repository with my web server.
And what about the servers you're not in control over, like web services which expect you to submit pdfs, videos or pictures like a resume, exercises and their solutions, scientific papers, a picture for printing...?
And our university staff and students have to upload numerous files per week in that way and since you claimed they're doing it wrong I'd like to hear your alternative to that.
I'd be pretty annoyed if my school or employer forced me to work so suboptimally. Still, a POST is a POST, whether it comes from a web browser or curl. Or from Emacs.
I frequently open files in projects that have tens of thousands of files scattered across thousands of directories. Any process for opening a file that involved navigating that directory hierarchy by clicking with a mouse would waste an enormous amount of time.