FileAPI Articles
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Firefox 3.6 FileAPI demo: reading EXIF data from a local JPEG file
Paul Rouget has put together a great demo of the new FileAPI we’re including in Firefox 3.6. It lets you drag a JPG from the desktop into the browser that includes EXIF data and it can extract the GPS coordinates in the image and then load the location of where the photo was taken, entirely […]
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How to resume a paused or broken file upload
This is a guest post written by Simon Speich. Simon is a web developer, believer in web standards and a lover of Mozilla since Mozilla 0.8 (!). Today, Simon is experimenting with the File API and the new Slice() method introduced in Firefox 4. Here is how he implements a resume upload feature in a […]
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The shortest image uploader – ever!
A couple of line of JavaScript. That’s all you need. This is a very short Image Uploader, based on imgur.com API. If you want to do more complex stuff (like resize, crop, drawing, colors, …) see my previous post. Back-story. I’ve been talking to Imgur.com‘s owner (Hi Alan!). He recently added Drag’n Drop support to […]
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HTML5 adoption stories: box.net and html5 drag and drop
This is a guest post from Tomas Barreto, a developer who works at box.net. They recently adopted HTML5 drag and drop as a way to share files with other people using new features in Firefox. The included video is a pitch for the feature and service, but shows how easy it is to do simple […]
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Creating thumbnails with drag and drop and HTML5 canvas
HTML5 Canvas is a very cool feature. Seemingly just an opportunity to paint inside the browser with a very low-level API you can use it to heavily convert and change image and video content in the document. Today, let’s take a quick look at how you can use Canvas and the FileReader API to create […]
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Announcing the winners of the July 2013 Dev Derby!
This past summer, some of the most passionate and creative web developers out there innovated with the File API in our July Dev Derby contest. After sorting through the entries, an all-star cast of former judges–Peter Lubbers, Eric Shepherd, and David Walsh–decided on three winners and two runners-up. Not a contestant? There are other reasons […]
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HTML5 APIs – Where No Man Has Gone Before! – Presentation at Gotham JS
Last weekend I was in New York City to speak at the GothamJS conference and Mozilla also sponsored it. It was a nice event with about 200 attendees, taking place in the NYIT Auditorium on Broadway. The event was one-track with 8 speakers, and personally I always prefer when it’s just one track for follow-up […]