Simon Willison’s Weblog

Opera Unite. Opera’s big announcement: a developer preview (“labs release”) of their new web-server-in-your-browser feature, Unite. Includes an Opera-hosted proxy to help break through your firewall. The web server can be customised using server-side JavaScript running in an Opera Widget.

# 11 am / javascript, opera, operaunite, unite, webservers, widgets

SWFUpload jQuery Plugin. Nice looking plugin around an invisible Flash shim that provides multiple file uploads and client-side progress indicators.

# 11:46 am / flash, javascript, jquery, swfupload, upload

Jython 2.5.0 Final is out! It’s been a long time coming—congratulations to the team.

# 11:21 pm / java, jython, python