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Simon Willison’s Weblog

Monday, 12th March 2007

XSS. Sanitising HTML is an extremely hard problem. The sanitize helper that ships with Rails is completely broken; Jacques Distler provides a better alternative. 7 12:34 am

Balancing One-Wheeled Scooter. Technical details of the scooter I linked to earlier. 0 1 pm

opensource @ Joost. Joost is built on top of Mozilla, Redland, SQLite and a bunch of other bits and pieces of Open Source infrastructure. 0 1:29 pm

wii.js (via) A JavaScript library that lets you detect the Wii browser, and provides easy hooks for reacting to keys pressed on the Wiimote. 0 10:23 pm

Google Video: How do I enter transcripts? Neat feature of Google Video I hadn’t seen before: you can upload timestamped transcripts of your videos. Anyone seen a video that uses these? 1 10:44 pm

You vs. the Real World. The lengths programming libraries go to to be liberal in what they accept. 0 10:48 pm

My Future of Web Apps talk as a slidecast

The team at Carson Systems have a pretty quick turnaround on their podcasts; they’ve had full recordings of every speaker up for a few days now. I spent a bunch of time over the weekend splicing the recording of my talk together with my slides, and the result is now available at The Future of OpenID (a slidecast). [... 177 words]

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