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Ajaxian Sep 23 10
The CSS Ninja details how Gmail's drag and drop from the desktop works; when you drag a file from the desktop into Gmail the file will automatically start uploading.
The CSS Ninja recreated the code in a demo (source code [zip]).
The code works in Firefox and Chrome. On Firefox the File API is used (detailed in [...] Full story...
Node.js employs an event-driven architecture and a non-blocking I/O model, and it provides some blindingly fast performance to some types of data-intensive Web apps.
HP continues to divulge bits and pieces of a road map for the ill-starred and nearly-orphaned webOS. The company has followed up its December plan to release webOS mobile platform and development tools with a proposed timeline, with a full release set before year’s end.
Shim was developed within the Boston Globe’s media lab as a way to study how Web sites look on various devices and browsers.
Facebook Software Engineer and HipHop for PHP team member Jason Evans provides details on Facebook’s move to a new high-performance PHP virtual machine.