November 2008 Archives

The BrowserPlus team is pleased to announce the availability of a BrowserPlus Platform update and a couple new services.

BrowserPlus 2.1.11 includes many stability fixes as well as full proxy support. This will allow BrowserPlus to work properly behind most firewalls and in proxied corporate environments.

A couple new services and some updates are available:

• FileAccess: Allows you to access the contents of user selected files, either ephemeral localhost URLs for playing media, or directly access non-binary content for display or processing in JavaScript.
• UUID: A simple service which exposes real universally unique identifiers to JavaScript
• Uploader: Has been updated (version 3.1.5) - fixing several issues reported by the community.
• ImageAlter: Version 2.0.0 is available, which returns session scoped file handles allowing for the ImageAlter service to be chained with other services in the system (most notably, Uploader)

Also, a new in-page installer tool is also available which allows you to build a convenient in-page installation flow for your users.

Finally, several new code samples are available which demonstrate various tasks, including uploading converted images and more advanced features of the Uploader service.

All of this is documented on the developer site, so hop over and check it out!

Enjoy, and keep the feedback coming! The BrowserPlus Team

Our launch party earlier this week was a lot of fun -- a small group of high quality folks. Thanks to everyone who came!

A new video is available on YDN of the overview presentation we gave.

Also, the slides from our presentations are available on slideshare.com:

• Overview
• The Gory Details

enjoy! lloyd

It's a personal and professional pleasure to announce today that BrowserPlus will be open source. You may read the full story over on the Yahoo! developer network.

The big idea here is that we'll have the whole platform open sourced by mid-next year, and as soon as possible we'll have many of the services we've written open sourced, as well as the APIs needed to write new services. Our goal is to empower the community to contribute actual patches and new services - code to compliment the feedback. As we move forward, we hope that this platform will contribute to the open web by enabling rapid innovation and giving us all a chance to weigh in on what exactly the web of tomorrow should look like.

By committing today to open sourcing of the platform we hope that people realize we're genuinely committed to a better browser.

Thanks for reading and stay tuned -- this could get fun.

lloyd

Please join YUI and BrowserPlus for a small get-together on the Yahoo! campus. Be sure to RSVP, as space is limited. Full details below.

When:
Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 2-6pm PST

Where:
Yahoo! HQ
701 First Avenue
Sunnyvale, CA

Who:
You and us, space is limited, please RSVP to browserplus-feedback@yahoo-inc.com.

What:
Join us for an update on the YUI 3.x codeline and to celebrate the launch of the Yahoo! BrowserPlus platform.

Why:
We've opened BrowserPlus to the world. We want to personally show you the platform and what it can do, and how you can use it now.

BrowserPlus 2.1.7 is now available. This release includes several bugfixes. If you use the site frequently, you should be automatically updated within a couple days. Otherwise, you may uninstall and reinstall to get the newest software.

Includes:

1. Fix problem where non-standard firefox installation directories were not supported on windows
2. several new security & privacy features.
3. stability improvements.

enjoy!

The BrowserPlus Team

A new video is available on the Yahoo Developer Network where we answer some of Jonathan LeBlanc's first questions about the platform. Hop over to our forums with your thoughts.

best,

The BrowserPlus Team