The alternatives right now (2012-02-22):<ol> Standard html: File select together in a form that is submitted to a page. (firefox, chrome, IE) Iframe hack: File select together with hidden iframe used to upload file. (firefox, chrome, IE) Flash (all flash enabled browsers) FileReader (firefox, chrome) Drag and drop together with FileReader and ajax post.  File select together with FileReader and ajax post. </ol> When building ordinary web applications then the first alternative is definitely the best. I[...]

asp.net mvc 4 has been released to beta. The exciting news here is websockets. Migrations for entity framework could help people realize the usefulness the technique.

Looks like John Resig has implemented the diff algorithm in javascript. This looks quite useful. Could be valuable for client side use. There is however a npm package that perhaps can used when analysing the code coverage information.

What if we could do a continuous code coverage? That is, while debugging and testing the app, storing the coverage information. A first version would consider lines that are not changed as covered if they have been executed during previous runs. This could be a sort of blunt tool to help isolate code that should be flagged either for removal, for code review, automatic or manual testing. It should be simple enough to send information about code coverage when running javascript code. The challenge is to map[...]

What if we could do a continuous code coverage? That is, while debugging and testing the app, storing the coverage information. A first version would consider lines that are not changed as covered if they have been executed during previous runs. This could be a sort of blunt tool to help isolate code that should be flagged either for removal, for code review, automatic or manual testing. It should be simple enough to send information about code coverage when running JavaScript code. The challenge is to map[...]