Windows 10: Forms camera button for image upload

When creating a form we are wanting to the responders to upload images and a question was raised when completing.Is it possible to have a camera button on Microsoft forms that will open a mobile devices camera instead of having to put into a folder then upload? . Currently the only option is to upload from file source .A second button for uploading direct from camera would be beneficial and save time completing tasks.

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Use URL of an image in Windows 10 file upload form

If there is a form that allows uploading an image, I often want to provide a URL of an image on the web instead of an image on my machine.

I'd love NOT to need to download the image to my machine first (just to then upload the image in the form, and then go delete the image from my machine).

However, URLs for images are often 700+ characters.





Windows 10 always then throws this error:

I already tried this Enable Win32 long paths Local Group Policy on my Win 10 machine. Unfortunately, I still get this error when trying to upload an image to Facebook by pasting (as a filename) a URL of an image on the web.

How can I skip the step of downloading an image to my machine if I want to upload that image?

 

Increase image file upload size cap

that's a good idea

 

Increase image file upload size cap

Okay, first off, people need to learn to calm down. That includes the OP and everyone replying. I would consider this a very legitimate concern he raises and I'll explain why and what I would suggest to fix it to address all the concerns brought up.

I see three sides to this.

• OneMoar wants to upload bigger files. Generally speaking, most users are lazy so this is a valid concern from a usability standpoint. While I do believe there should be an upload limit, there should be a separate storage limit.
• Concern with bandwidth: I suspect that uploading images is a relatively small amount of bandwidth and that serving up said images is much more costly. So that would put emphasis on getting not putting if bandwidth is a concern.
• Storage, a very real concern because a lot of images adds up quickly which adds a need to efficiently store said images.

So my suggestion (assuming W1zz wanted to do this out of kindness of his heart,) is this:

• Increase upload limit to 10-20MB max.
• Institute a storage limit of 2-5MB max.
• Use PHP's GD library to convert uploaded images to JPEG or PNG.
  • PNGs tend to look nicer than JPEGs, but use more space. Probably preferable for smaller images or images requiring transparency.
  • JPEG tends to be very flexible when it comes to quality and the amount of compression. PHP's GD lib gives you control over this.

So long as the image is uploaded in a format GD can read which includes most commonly used formats, it may not be unrealistic to re-store it in a different format. It's also not unrealistic to use GD to scale the image as well.

I've used GD before and it's relatively easy to use and is relatively quick with respect to performance. I would be willing to write up some examples with respect to how to do it if it were welcomed.

Side note: I see a watermark, GD might be getting used already so this might not be a stretch if the CPU cycles are there to spare.