The client is trying to figure out whether they'd like to go with a node-webkit app with AngularJS, but their one sticking point is that they'd like to be able for their users to drag a file out of the app and onto the desktop or an email client (such as Outlook or Lotusnotes) like you can do with an applet (which I'm desperately trying to avoid).
As far as I can tell, this doesn't look possible, but I'm not well versed yet with the latest stuff you can do with HTML5 and Chrome specifically. Any guidance is greatly appreciated.
Edit: I've also never used node.js
http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/dnd/basics/#toc-dnd-files
http://www.thecssninja.com/javascript/gmail-dragout
The answer is yes. Here is some more text so that I can submit my answer.
#tjb1982 Using a demo like this one:
http://www.thecssninja.com/javascript/gmail-dragout worked for simple files, but when trying to drag a WAV file or MP3 file into a audio software( like logic, pro tools, ableton ) they won't recognise it as an audio file.
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I'm new to programming in general, and I'm currently working on a little game project in Python + pygame. One day I might want to work on my laptop, and the other day on my desktop.
How could I make it so that I can continue on my code from whatever computer I'll be working on?
You could compare it to working in the same document in Google Drive, from whatever device you want.
I've seen services like Github, Google Cloud Code, Microsoft Azure... could they be what I'm looking for?
Would it work storing my project folder in something like Microsoft Onedrive?
GitHub is exactly what you are looking for :)
Google: Version Control Systems
Try github desktop.
It works very well for me.
In Blogger I am trying to recreate the audio feature used in this web site http://www.talkenglish.com/lessondetails.aspx?ALID=2001 where you click on text and hear the audio (an mp3 file) instantly. When I embed identical code into a Blogger page and click it, it wants to play the mp3 file by kick starting Windows Media Player. I don't want a solution like SoundCloud that creates visible player controls. Can anyone suggest a solution. I am hoping to use it to create an online amateur speech therapy package to support some voluntary work I do in this area.
Thanks
That site is using a file called audioplayer.js. To be honest, I am not exactly sure if that's custom built or not. You can look at the source for that here. You have a bunch of options to get the functionality you're looking for. A couple are below.
You can use SoundManager2 which is a very robust JS Sound plugin.
You can also use HTML5's built in <audio> element. You can read more about that here
My freind and I want to setup a collaborative project where we both work on a HTML file (and do PHP) at the same time (bit like Google Docs share feature). I want to be able to work with him to teach him certain things in PHP and HTML while I also code at the same time. Any suggestions? I have a VPS I thought we could use for it so nothings really going to get in our way. Maybe something like GIT or something?
Sounds like what you need is a real-time collaborative text editor. Here's an extensive list from wikipedia.
I use Google Docs personally but Microsoft has added this type of functionality into Office and there are a slew of desktop and online tools on that link. I had looked into Etherpad before but i don't remember enough to suggest one or the other. All of the links are on the wikipedia article so I won't repeat here.
Need some inspiration for such a plugin. We aim to mix media, stored locally and in the cloud, in one online experience. Access via the File API sucks badly. We need something better.
Sure... Flash does that, Silverlight does that, Quicktime does that, Move Media Player does that... I'm sure there are others, but I'm not sure how it helps you, since none that I am aware of except VLC is open source, and the VLC open source plugin isn't the best written one I have seen (no offense to those involved, it's a hard task).
If you haven't already, I'd take a look at FireBreath; it simplifies the plugin creation process and lets you focus more on what you want to do with it.
What's the simplest way to setup a chrome extension to record audio from the microphone?
I see there is a working experimental speech input API but how come you don't have access to the recorded file? Seems like hooking up into that should be simple enough, as it's a step earlier in the process, no? Especially as there is also a text-to-speech API, so you could effectively record into text and then have the computer speak it back out, but unless you want a standard voice, how lame, redundant and prone to error is that?
Then there seem to be flash solutions like this but how can I use that in a chrome extension without having to setup anything server-side? (since I don't actually need to send anything to a server--it's all local and client-side)
Is NPAPI a possibility? Is there such a plugin ready-made?
Don't know of other possible alternatives (HTML5 isn't ready yet, it seems) but I welcome anything functional and simple to implement and hook into a chrome extension.
Finally a native solution appeared: Introducing getUserMedia
You cannot use the speech input API, since it will record only the microphone. Okay, you can grab the speakers like that, but it's clearly not the solution.
Using a NPAPI plugin is a solution. You'll can identify the sound made by a particular tab and after record that source, but it is no longer web dev.