More links

6th August 2003

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(!)

Simon Willison’s Weblog