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Something every web developer should do, is test whatever Web related stuff into new generation devices such netbooks , low cost notebook, old PCs and/or smart phones . If a non techie user surfs a website and the latter one horribly slows down his " device ", in the most common case, and specially if the website is " famous ", this user will blame its wonderful piece of technology, rather than the infamous designer/developer that created the problem. This happened recently, as example, in Hotamail and with the latest Sherlock Holmes Flash banner. The Solution Is Simple Starting with the fact that Junior Flash developers are as responsible as advertisement hosts, unable to filter proper banners from annoying one , if a company would like to provide these heavy computation banners it should simply make a little investment as a whatever Atom CPU based device is (even just an all in one motherboard is enough!). Even better, it could recycle a generic good old Pent...

As announced a couple of days ago, I am finally proud to introduce my last library free Multiple Upload Component , now compatible with every browser and always without usage of 3rd parts plug-ins. This little project has been hosted in Google Code and I promise I'll write there a complete documentation asap. Righ now, you can read the project source code via zip to understand what he little API is doing. Update I added a couple of sections in the Wiki page ;) Compatibility? Internet Explorer 5.5 (probably 5 too), 6, 7, and 8 FireFox? 3 or greater Google Chrome 1.0 Opera 8, 9, and 10 Safari 4 (current beta) other browsers via unobtrusive iframe Try the demo if you do not believe it :P

Update: released official version in Google Code, cross browser, and easy to use. blog enry Ok guys, this is a quick and dirty entry in my blog. I need to write documentation, create the project in Google Code, explain better what I have done and how it works. I do not want to give you the zip right now because I have to change name (silly me do not check before) and to do last tests ... but basically, what I have created this week end, is a graceful enhanced multiple file upload manager compatible with Chrome, FireFox, Internet Explorer (5.5 or greater), Opera, Safari. The manager wrap an input type file and manages it allowing multiple files selection, where supported, or one after one insert with possibility to remove one or more file from the list. Everything is absolutely customizable, since the wrapper is entirely in CSS, the library has a language namespace for errors or messages, and events are created by developers. In those browsers were Ajax upload is not supported, the pro...