Every­one must know about this by now, but it’s just so god­damn cool: file upload with Cold­Fu­sion flash forms.

I just wish Cold­Fu­sion flash forms were more usable. They’re just so painfully slow… I’ve tried using them on our intranet, but find even myself fin­ger tap­ping while look­ing at that bloody “load­ing” progress bar. And I want to use them… I can’t imag­ine some­one who doesn’t care wait­ing long for them to load.

I saw a pro­to­type of an inter­net appli­ca­tion that used them exten­sively… lots of com­plex forms. It seemed very slug­gish to me. A few weeks later I saw it again and the Flash forms were gone — when I asked the site’s owner (not the devel­oper), he said the Flash forms “were a big mis­take”. ‘Nuff said. Lucky they’re easy to replace, right?

So what’s the story — is it just me? I don’t really believe that… I think Flash forms and RIAs are great, but I think Cold­Fu­sion MX7’s cfform imple­men­ta­tion, while fan­tas­tic in con­cept, lack quite a bit in per­for­mance. Fair call, or do I expect too much?