Comments on: Yahoo Unveils Webtop Plugin, BrowserPlus, Before It’s Ready

By: Yahoo BrowserPlus

Yahoo BrowserPlus — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:26:43 +0000

[...] You can find other demos IRC chat and JSON Inspector here If this becomes fully usable who need all those photo editors for basic editing of photos. Via Techcrunch [...]

By: Nat

Nat — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 02:06:59 +0000

Interesting development…

http://hackety....rowserPlus.html

Looks like _why has dismantled it to run as a camping app in ruby.

By: Liverpool Credit Card

Liverpool Credit Card — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 01:06:44 +0000

Iv tried downloading it. It doesnt work.

By: Manchester United Credit Card

Manchester United Credit Card — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 00:37:41 +0000

Iv just tried downloading it using my firefox browser. Does work!

By: Daniel Leuck

Daniel Leuck — Thu, 29 May 2008 16:23:48 +0000

> Am I the only one who believes HTML/AJAX is just
> a dirty hack for building rich interfaces?

Certainly not. They are dirty hacks. Flex and Silverlight are the way forward.

By: The Next-Gen Web: Browser Storage Support

The Next-Gen Web: Browser Storage Support — Thu, 29 May 2008 12:48:24 +0000

[...] is starting to gather pace, as this week MySpace integrated Google Gears, Yahoo! announced their new BrowserPlus product and Google launched a browser-based edition of their 3D Earth product. Technologies and formats [...]

By: TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » Yahooが未完成のブラウザープラグイン「BrowserPlus」を発表

TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » Yahooが未完成のブラウザープラグイン「BrowserPlus」を発表 — Thu, 29 May 2008 05:51:58 +0000

[...] [原文へ]　 [...]

By: Q dub

Q dub — Thu, 29 May 2008 01:48:12 +0000

Am I the only one who believes HTML/AJAX is just a dirty hack for building rich interfaces? The technology was never meant for apps, and it shows. We talk about how brilliant of the Gmail-guys for figuring out how to do gtalk in a browser via a “never ending pageload”, but my god, why does it take a genius to accomplish such a basic task to begin with?

I’m all for new ways to enrich the browser-app experience, because HTML/AJAX are totally stale technologies that are encumbered by turtling pace of the W3C. Part of the reason Flash is so successful was because the platform evolved so much more rapidly than HTML/AJAX.

By: magixman

magixman — Thu, 29 May 2008 00:28:45 +0000

Drag and drop is nice, client side manipulation of images is useful and desktop notification is well, OK. The real gulf between browser based and OS installed applications is the ability work when not connected to the network. Gears is the only HTML/JS solution that as does that.

As a web 2.0 application developer I don’t want to have a million platforms and my hope is that Gears and HTML 5 will converge and those of us who chose to do pure HTML/JS (as opposed to Flash, Silverlight or Java) will have a clear, unambiguous path.

By: Wil Tan

Wil Tan — Wed, 28 May 2008 23:18:22 +0000

Yahoo is, again, late to the game. The best way to redeem tardiness is to take your time to release a polished product. Instead, they decided to prematurely release a crippled product and hope that the news and media will pick it up just because they’re YHOO.

By: links for 2008-05-28 « 個人的な雑記

links for 2008-05-28 « 個人的な雑記 — Wed, 28 May 2008 22:56:51 +0000

[...] Yahoo Unveils Webtop Plugin, BrowserPlus, Before It’s Ready (tags: webOS yahoo web2.0) [...]

By: Mogilny

Mogilny — Wed, 28 May 2008 22:06:49 +0000

Yahoo is now worth paying 100% premium for! Forget MS, let me grab my check book!

By: Vishal

Vishal — Wed, 28 May 2008 21:27:29 +0000

Digsby, is probably the best Client I have used to integrate my IM, Facebook, Twitter and checking mails in one client.

Coming back to BrowserPlus, it will be much value add if it would let me do all those things with any Picture Storage service. About the Web Development feautres, they already have Y!Slow for Firebug, and I guess now they are trying something of their own in competition to FireBug. I like that, I love options. So that includes options to choose between other Add-ons that provide the same features.

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 28 May 2008 21:05:30 +0000

Its nice to see yahoo! Jumping into the battle with browser extenders on one side (gears) and site specific browsers on the other (bubbles,prism)

I use bubbles for facebook chat because of the notifications

By: YSYNC

YSYNC — Wed, 28 May 2008 20:50:33 +0000

Drag and drop to browser is much needed.. that’s perhaps one reason (among other reasons) that box.net is using Flash for their online storage services. Drag and drop is important.

By: Wade

Wade — Wed, 28 May 2008 20:41:36 +0000

Stuff like this seems ok (can’t hurt). Even if it doesn’t become a standard, maybe it’ll give some ideas on how to advance browser technology.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 28 May 2008 20:40:08 +0000

I hate to ask this, especially since nobody is going to answer.

So as most of you know I am using YUI to develop our new jobs website.

So is YUI going to extend into browser plus?

By: NYC

NYC — Wed, 28 May 2008 20:36:49 +0000

Why do I need to drag-and-drop items from the desktop onto the browser??? What is the purpose of this plugin? Is it something like iMacros to automate (script) web browsing?

By: Frank Church

Frank Church — Wed, 28 May 2008 20:35:20 +0000

Why am I underwhelmed? I already have a FF plug in for drag_and_drop, and the other functionality in a few other apps I use. Redundant.

By: TechTalk WRLR 98.3FM

TechTalk WRLR 98.3FM — Wed, 28 May 2008 20:33:25 +0000

Obviously yahoo is flailing about trying to build up credibility in it’s renewed talks with Microsoft. Ozzie’s playing the game on his side, and Yahoo in typically disjointed fashion is trying to create the appearance of rapid growth in the 2.0 era and boundless potential.

What impact this will have on an undereducated (technologically anyways) board of directors and shareholders ala keeping Icahn and his barbarians at the gates away, is to be seen come end of July.

I would expect to see several more of these ‘an ok idea but uncorked too early’ stories in the coming weeks.

By: YSYNC

YSYNC — Wed, 28 May 2008 20:22:48 +0000

>without even notifying you or letting you cancel
without even notifying you to let you cancel

it does give you a notification box, but it won’t let you have any choice.
again, talking about the freaking firefox, not the yahoo browserplus

By: YSYNC

YSYNC — Wed, 28 May 2008 20:18:36 +0000

You will have the choice to cancel or proceed with the installation.

That’s already pretty nice, isn’t it? That freaking firefox just proceeds with an update installation it thinks fit without even notifying you or letting you cancel, and crashing often aftwards.

I’m using version v3.0b4, in case any firefox people care to know.

By: SearcH◆◇ EngineS WEB

SearcH◆◇ EngineS WEB — Wed, 28 May 2008 20:12:33 +0000

Anyone can download and play with it….it really is tons of fun…but watchout!

BrowserPlus may gather, store and transmit to Yahoo! the following anonymous information about your usage of the BrowserPlus for diagnostic and software improvement purposes:
o Your device’s platform (i.e., osx, win 32, XP).
o The version number of BrowserPlus that you have installed.
o A unique identifier assigned to your installation of BrowserPlus. Yahoo! will NOT associate this unique identifier, your browsing activity or the web sites you visit to you or any of your personally identifiable information.

From time to time, Yahoo! may automatically download the latest version of BrowserPlus and notify you when it’s ready to install. You will have the choice to cancel or proceed with the installation.

Certain internet sites you visit may request that you download a corelet that will plug into BrowserPlus and help to optimize your online experience while on that site. You will have the choice to cancel or proceed with the installation.

To learn more, please read our BrowserPlus privacy information at …

By: YSYNC

YSYNC — Wed, 28 May 2008 19:58:31 +0000

Interesting stuff… and yeah, great timing also…