Services
The following services are in production at http://browserplus.yahoo.com/. With BrowserPlus installed, you can test services with Service Explorer.
Services Available
- Archiver
- Lets you archive and optionally compress files and directories.
- Directory
- Lets you list directory contents and invoke JavaScript .callbacks for the contained items.
- Downloader
- Download remote files over HTTP to a temporary location and return file handles to javascript.
- DragAndDrop
- Support drag and drop of files from desktop to web browser.
- FileAccess
- Access the contents of files that the user has selected.
- FileBrowse
- Present the user with a native file browser dialog that allows multiple file selection and file filtering.
- FileChecksum
- Allows client side MD5 of user selected files.
- FileTransfer
- This service lets you upload or download files faster and easier than before.
- FlickrUploader
- Provides an interface to the Flickr Authorization and Upload API.
- ImageAlter
- Implements client side Image manipulation
- InactiveServices
- Allows for the exploration of available inactive services, which may be downloaded and activated.
- JSONRequest
- Allows secure cross-domain JSON requests, inspired by http://www.json.org/JSONRequest.html.
- LZMA
- Perform LZMA (de)compression.
- Log
- Access plugin logging facilities. The available levels in order of severity are Fatal, Error, Warn, Info, Debug.
- LogAccess
- Lets you get file handles for BrowserPlus log files from a webpage.
- Machsend
- Efficiently transfer files on machsend.com (provided by Lead Thinking, LLC)
- Motion
- Use the hardware based motion sensor or mouse position to attain the (virtual) orientation of the computing device. Mouse position allows a resonable fallback for machines that don't contain an accesible motion sensor. Inspired by Amit Singh (http://www.kernelthread.com/software/ams/).
- Notify
- Post notifications to the desktop. Supports Growl on Mac OS X, if installed.
- PStore
- Provides a persistent store.
- PublishSubscribe
- A cross document message service that allows JavaScript to send and receive messages between web pages within one or more browsers (cross document + cross process).
- RubyInterpreter
- Allows other services to be written in Ruby.
- Tar
- Lets you tar files and directories.
- TextToSpeech
- Interfaces operating system provided text to speech facilities.
- UUID
- Generate universally unique identifiers.
- Uploader
- This service lets you upload files faster and easier than before.
- Zipper
- Lets you archive files and directories.
