Yahoo BrowserPlus Challenges Adobe Air, Google Gears
Amid speculation about its mysterious BrowserPlus platform, Yahoo May 27 released a sneak preview of the software for programmers.
Developed over the last year by Yahoo programmers, BrowserPlus is Yahoo's RIA (rich Internet application) for porting more desktop capabilities to Web applications.
Users may leverage BrowserPlus to drag and drop content from the desktop to Web sites; crop, rotate and filter images from the computer; enable easier file uploads; and receive native desktop notifications, wrote Yahoo's BrowserPlus team in a blog post May 27.
