Was watching the videos for the new flash player beta and this in the Pixelbender demo there is something really interesting.

He takes a script file from his local computer, the player interprets it and saves the image out as a PNG at runtime. After doing some research online i came across this article from flashmagasine.com, as far as i understand this the new functionality can load a file into the player at runtime without going via the server, what this would mean for SWFUpload is that it could take any image format and convert it + downsample it on the client. - say someone uploaded a 5MP tiff image, previously you would have to send all that data to the server before you could do anything, with this feature you could take that data, convert it to a 1024 x 768 jpg, create a png thumbnail on the client and then save the filereference on the server.

This would mean enormous bandwidth savings for any site that does uploads. When we first started the original project at least this was easily the most requested feature that ppl wanted implented.

Anyone up for the challenge?