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Greetings!

We've developed a lightweight header-only framework to try to really ease development of new BrowserPlus services in C++.

The framework aids you in implementing the C structures you're required to provide by the C Service API. It also gives your service methods C++ argument types which are a bit easier to work with than the native BrowserPlus C types. It also sports a transaction object to make it easy to do asynchronous responses and multiple callbacks.

We now have a tutorial up on browserplus.org, which references sample code on github. Build files are provided for OSX (using GNU Make) and Windows (for Visual Studio 2008), so you should be able to build and test with a minimum of fuss.

The tutorial implements a simple HelloWorld service, but more complex services have been built using the framework. For example we have built a C++ version of our PublishSubscribe service.

If you have any questions or feedback or suggestions regarding the framework or tutorial, come join us on irc. Or, since the framework is on GitHub, just fork it, fix it, and send us a pull request!

Have fun,

Dave and the BrowserPlus Team

Hello All,

On this fine day we've released two new services: LZMA and Tar. These new tools complement the existing Zipper service to give you several options for portable data compression in the web browser. We believe that client side compression can improve user experience by decreasing the time it takes to upload content. For a whole lot more about client side compression, watch our short screencast.

Finally, please take a look at the Bit Squeezr demo, which gives you a visceral feel for these new services

till the next, The BrowserPlus Team

Hello All,

On this fine day we've released two new services: LZMA and Tar. These new tools complement the existing Zipper service to give you several options for portable data compression in the web browser. We believe that client side compression can improve user experience by decreasing the time it takes to upload content. For a whole lot more about client side compression, watch our short screencast.

Finally, please take a look at the Bit Squeezr demo, which gives you a visceral feel for these new services

till the next, The BrowserPlus Team

Hello All,

On this fine day we've released two new services: LZMA and Tar. These new tools complement the existing Zipper service to give you several options for portable data compression in the web browser. We believe that client side compression can improve user experience by decreasing the time it takes to upload content. For a whole lot more about client side compression, watch our short screencast.

Finally, please take a look at the Bit Squeezr demo, which gives you a visceral feel for these new services

till the next, The BrowserPlus Team

We're pleased to announce the general availability of BrowserPlus platform 2.4.8, some updated developer tools, and a shiny new service! Here's an itemized list of what's new and what's changed:

BrowserPlus platform 2.4.8 includes:

• Experimental support for 3 new languages (Danish, Swedish, and Norwegian)
• Experimental support for windows 7
• Oodles of bugfixes and stability improvements.

The new and improved Service Explorer comes with the following enhancements:

• Allows parameters to be specified for all argument types (including callbacks and file handles)
• Automatically provides callback arguments for all functions
• Improved parameter help
• Improved provision of default parameters

Additionally we've shipped a new version of the Uploader service that supports cross domain uploads via a crossdomain.xml file hosted on the upload target. This is the same tried and true mechanism that flash employs to provide a similar feature, and you can read all about the file format on Adobe's site.

Finally, we've push an alpha version of a brand new service, PublishSubscribe, this service allows secure cross-document and even cross-browser messaging. Check out our code demo for a visceral idea of how this works.

Finally, thanks to all who continue to work with us and provide feedback in our forums and on IRC, don't be strangers!

Howdy folks,

We're extremely happy to announce the availability of the BrowserPlus SDK. This first SDK and the accompanying documentation gives you all the tools you'll need to start extending the web using BrowserPlus. Getting started is easy, you can hop over to our tutorial and write your first service in about 15 minutes.

In addition to the SDK, we've pushed a new platform version, 2.1.14, that fixes several bugs reported by all of you. We deeply appreciate your continued contributions and hope with the SDK and our ongoing process of open sourcing BrowserPlus we'll empower you to contribute even more to the project.

And... Welcome the new Zipper service to our collection! A big problem with some web apps today is being able to efficiently attach all file types. Zipper plays nicely with Uploader and lets you compress files or folders on the client before uploading them. This service should be considered alpha, and we look forward to your feedback and ideas on how to make this more useful. We've got lots of ideas of which way to take this service (lzma being first and foremost), but would love to hear your thoughts.

Finally, as you start digging deep into the SDK we'll expect you'll have lots of thoughts and feedback. For that reason we'll be hanging out on github and on IRC (#browserplus at irc.freenode.net). You can check out some of the early open source projects dedicated to exploring new browserplus services on github right now

You probably have some questions, and we've done our best to preempt you over in our FAQ.

Thanks for reading and participating. We deeply believe that the continued success of this project is dependent all of you. Your feedback, talents, and creativity.

much love, The BrowserPlus Team

Happy monday,

Udayakumar Rayala on our forums has crafted a greasemonkey script that will post desktop notifications when new results are available from search.twitter.com. BrowserPlus+greasemonkey (+Udayakumar's creativity) makes search.twitter.com more usable.

I personally love this hack as I'm a huge user of search.twitter.com, I leave a tab or two open all day long monitoring some topics I care about, but I'm not particularly interested in installing native applications to get more instant updates on the twitter-o-sphere. So this hack has made my life better. Thanks Udayakumar!

till the next, lloyd

Howdy folks,

As of right now, BrowserPlus has opened it's doors to the world! Anyone may use BrowserPlus on their own sites to build in-page drag and drop, upload, desktop notifications (which require no external frameworks and work even when your browser is minimized), and a whole lot more.

The set of new features include:

• google chrome and IE 6 support
• < 2mb installation
• end user configuration panel for managing permissions on a per site basis
• three new services
• a sw33t game using the macbook's motion sensor (ok, sw33t is an overstatement)
• full API documentation, code samples, and a new forum for connecting to developers

So check out the site, and hop back in the forums and let us know what you think!