Simon Willison’s Weblog

Two visions. It looks like Mark Pilgrim is going to be joining Hixie at Google.

# 8:32 am / google, ian-hickson, mark-pilgrim

Flash vs. Ajax: It’s time to expand your toolbox. Dan Webb offers his smart, pragmatic take on the Flash vs. Ajax permathread.

# 9:49 am / ajax, dan-webb, flash, flex

Launch Late to Launch Often. “The bottom line being that you want to invest pre-launch such that you optimize for innovation post-launch.”

# 9:50 am / dick-costolo, feedburner

A Zoned Defense. Using JavaScript’s date.getTimezoneOffset() to detect the user’s timezone and stash it in a cookie.

# 9:51 am / javascript, timezones

DED|Chain JavaScript Library (via) Dustin’s new JavaScript library, which puts a JQuery style chained API on top of YUI.

# 10:36 am / dedchain, dustin-diaz, javascript, jquery, yui

Subversion Tips. To edit a Subversion log entry: svn propset --revprop -r XXX svn:log “New message here”

# 2:59 pm / subversion

JavaScript/CSS Font Detector (via) Really clever trick: detects the fonts that you have installed by writing out some text and measuring its dimensions.

# 11:20 pm / css, fonts, javascript