The arrival of the following two posts on the same day is just too ironic for me not to write about:
- Web Sockets Now Available In Google Chrome
- Firefox 3.6 FileAPI demo: reading EXIF data from a local JPEG file
More and more it seems that APIs which have existed for decades on all POSIX systems (which includes all popular OSes except Windows) are being re-implemented as web standards. This is an interesting trend, which I think is being fueled by a confluence of factors:
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