More than always, a great support for multimedia files is what people want. Who cares about hosting videos or images when YouTube and Flickr do that for you ? Well, some people do and we have to allow them to deal with that process as smoothly as possible. But mostly, companies do, and they want it bad. With SaaS applications coming in every part of modern businesses, Drupal might not only be seen as a great CMS but also as the perfect tool to build a SaaS application. And do you know what's great with SaaS applications ? Like YouTube or Flickr, you want them to handle your assets without headaches. Unfortunately we're not there yet and there's work to do.
Wordpress is a great source of inspiration. Their multimedia buttons and WYSIWYG toolbar are truly amazing and newbs understand how things are working within minutes.
Look at their multimedia browser...
Now look at the one from the Media module...ok you get it. If we don't find the UI inspiration ourselves, let's at least build awesome features.
Next, let's take a look at what Joomla! does...
Ugly huh ? But there's a kick-ass directory support and companies neeeeed that ! IMCE and CKFinder are simply not the solution. Give a social business software every possible tool to create articles, blog entries or whatever content type business owners need, the end users will anyway attach thousands of PDF and Microsoft Office documents overloading the database and making the one-directory only architecture cough in no time.
Wanna help with all this ? Contribute to the following modules and make them even more awesome !
