Simon Willison’s Weblog

Transparent PNGs in Internet Explorer 6. 24ways kicks off again, with the first article introducing super-sleight, an updated script for getting transparent PNGs to work in IE6.

# 12:03 am / 24-ways, drew-mclellan, ie, ie6, javascript, pngs

BBC Radio Labs: Perl on Rails. BBC engineered built their own Rails clone in Perl to fit in with the BBC’s engineering infrastructure—it’s already running the new programmes guide.

# 1 am / bbc, perl, rails

Why the h can’t Rails escape HTML automatically? It would be a pretty huge change, but auto-escaping in Rails 2.0 could close up a lot of accidental XSS holes.

# 8:34 pm / autoescaping, django, rails, security, xss