Media Library Plugin.

Hi Tim,

Are you still working on this - haven't seen a response since you originally posted it? If you don't mind I have a couple of simple questions that others might also have:

* Is this to be used within a single domain or are you thinking cross-domain functionality (like a CDN)?

* You used the word "plugin"...so would it be relegated to be used only from within CMSB sites/functions, outside, or a combination?  I am wondering the process here for prompting the need. For example, I have a client that uploads an absurd amount of photos to his site via the standard CMSB functionality. IF he were to be skilled enough to utilize a higher speed uploading process such as FTPS he could save exponentially on upload time. 

There's another potential here in this concept. Image uploading has always been a challenge because of the very nature of the file types, etc. (remember not too long ago the challenges with flash uploading being dumped, etc?). If the image filenames were pre-configured into either/both the CMSB code/php-html code then having a separate high-speed upload/storage system could provide quite a few advantages for speed, storage, security and probably price. 

Yep - still going, and making progress.

* Is this to be used within a single domain or are you thinking cross-domain functionality (like a CDN)?

I'm seeing a single domain. 

would it be relegated to be used only from within CMSB sites/functions, outside, or a combination?

Initially, just within CMSB.  However I do see value in extending that and was thinking of being able to sync with Dropbox and Google Drive etc.  I don't think the monitoring of an FTP folder would be much different to that.

Not planned initially, but I'm thinking the following things may be something to build out.

• I would like to see the media library stored externally also - so hosting images / files etc on an S3 instance rather than on the local server, for cost savings, security, redundancy etc. 
• The way cloudinary etc programatically deliver images and video in a responsive format is brilliant - so the source file is stored, and the cropped / manipulated image is delivered as required rather than duplicated into multiple versions.
• I like the idea of storing "embed code" as media in the media library - so for instance we could store vimeo and youtube video, or podcasts etc, rather than having to locate that source each time.  
• Having admin roles associated to the media library would also be beneficial - so Admin or Marketing etc could upload the "approved" imagery and video, and content managers can only utilise those "approved" images.

...do you envision of way without the need for javascript?