Simon Willison’s Weblog

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Clearing out another several days worth of tabs. Some day I’m gonna get me a link-roll.

• Zeldman’s presentation on web standards, including a gallery of commercial sites designed with CSS.
• mezzoblue is now in CSS, accompanied by great news of a revivial of the excellent glasshaus web development book series.
• Anobind, a Pythonic XML API.
• Pseudo Design’s Bridgeport design journal: Day 1: Intro and Day 2: Technology Choice.
• Dive Into Python: The peculiar nature of and and or (who says Python doesn’t have a tertiary statement?)
• Doug Bowman adds his own special flair to the link-blog concept.
• Max Design: Ideal line length for content using ems.
• Python Cookbook: MySQL and accessing database results by field. Further Python database documentation on DevShed (MySQL) and amk.ca (DB_API).
• Comment preview with JavaScript and DOM—comment previews without POSTing to the server.
• Dorothea is planning a new weblog to cover Echo/Pie/Whatever, with a focus on non-technical people. Drop her a line if you think you can help.
• Adding built in XPath support to PostrgreSQL.
• New Google Operator (~, for finding keyword synonyms) and tips on understanding what it does.
• Ben Hammersley explains how XML namespaces add context, compares them to poetry(!)