BrowserPlus™ - Sample Code

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Sample Code

Using BrowserPlus™ is simpler than you might think. We've created some samples to demonstrate how simple.

Samples

1
Introduction
How to check for BrowserPlus, and initialize it.
2
Using Services
How to specify in your webpage what BrowserPlus services you require.
3
Errors & Return Values
How results are asynchronously returned.
4
Drag And Drop
Hooking up a drop target in a webpage.
5
Image Twiddler
A complete web application that demonstrates client side image manipulation, tying together the concepts thus far.

Introduction

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Description

This is the simplest possible BrowserPlus website. The script tag on line 06 includes the BrowserPlus javascript library which populates the YAHOO.bp namespace with a number of functions.

Once this small (and standalone) library is loaded, we can initialize the BrowserPlus plugin, and invoke a built-in function: YAHOO.bp.getPlatformInfo(). This function returns the current installed version of the BrowserPlus platform.

So what happens if BrowserPlus isn't installed? We'll cover that in sample #3.

Now that you see using BrowserPlus basically involves just the inclusion of a JavaScript library which provides some basic functionality, let's move on to using services...

BrowserPlus™ (sneak peek)

Sample Code

Description