BitTorrent visualization in processing.js

The visualization over at mg8.org demonstrates interactively how bitTorrent work. You can use the keyboard to add or remove peers and seeders. The visualization does not require Flash or Java since it is developed using Processing.js a Javascript animation framework.

Processing.js is an open programming language which allows people to program images, animation, and interactions for the web without using Flash or Java applets. It uses Javascript on the HTML5 Canvas element, it is light-weight, easy to learn (ideal for visualizing data, user-interfaces or web-based games)

Click on the link below in order to view the visualization. It should work on any modern browser except IE (IE doesn't support the <canvas> tag).

Source mg8.org

Drag out files like Gmail

Google has added a nice feature to Gmail allowing us to drag and drop from Gmail to the Desktop bypassing the Save Dialog.

The [CSS] Ninja has written up a great article describing the process of not only how to do it (in javascript), but also show us how to actually track down the information. Tracking down the information on a certain feature especially in Google's case is very important since they obfuscate all of their javascript.

We also get a Live Demo of the Drag and Drop feature along with the source files.

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