Firefox Gets Massive JavaScript Performance Boost

"Mozilla has integrated tracing optimization into SpiderMonkey, the JavaScript interpreter in Firefox. This improvement has boosted JavaScript performance by a factor of 20 to 40 in certain contexts."

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AJAX file upload tutorial

In this tutorial I will show you how to create simple AJAX file upload system using PHP and JavaScript.

Gmail Type Attachment - How to make one?

One of the most talked about thing about Gmail is probably how do they achieve making Gmail so simple, convinient, sober, fast and easy. One of the Gmail’s feature which contribute hugely in making it easier and faster for users is: Its ability to attach your files while you are writing your mail.

I have tried to come up with an exact clone for gmail attachment.

This is achieved by using an iframe which contains your server side script responsible for handling uploads. As soon as the user select a file to upload, the upload form gets submitted to upload.php, which lies in an iframe. Hence at no point does the user leaves the page and still he gets his file uploaded. Find attached below all the files you need to implement this on your server. Just unzip the file on your server, and you are ready. All the uploaded files will go in th upload folder by default. You may change that in upload.php.

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Top 10 Javascript Frameworks

Javascript libraries have become fundamental to good web design, almost all ste nowadays have some element of javascript or Ajax present. It is probably the main element in developing the Web 2.0 movement.

There are many Frameworks, which do you prefer?