Simon Willison’s Weblog

IE8 Passes Acid2 Test. This is huge. As Kevin Yank points out, this means IE8 includes proper support for the object tag, CSS table layout properties and generated content.

# 3:11 pm / css, ie8, web-standards, acid2, kevinyank, tablelayout, generatedcontent, object

Design. A very fancy suite of design tools wrapped up in a bookmarklet (that loads an external script). Includes grids, rulers, measurements and a crosshair.

# 4:53 pm / design, bookmarklets, allan-jardine, grids

Eventually Consistent. Werner Vogels explains the trade-offs involved in building scalable, highly-available data stores such as Amazon’s SimpleDB.

# 5:59 pm / eventuallyconsistent, simpledb, amazon, scaling, wernervogels

Maven: Broken By Design. Charles Miller: “If you check out a particular version of your code and build it with particular versions of your tools, you should get a product that is binary-identical each time.”

# 8:24 pm / maven, charles-miller, buildtools, java