Simon Willison’s Weblog

Guardian Unlimited’s new look: Some background on templating. Nik Silver describes some of the challenges involved in building a complex new homepage using CSS and Velocity.

# 12:26 pm / css, guardianunlimite, niksilver, templating, velocity

Poly9 FreeEarth (via) Seriously sexy embedable 3D Flash globe, with a JavaScript API.

# 9:17 pm / 3d, flash, globe, javascript, mapping

Six Months Later: The New HTML Working Group. In case you haven’t been paying attention, Kevin Yank summarises some of the key discussions in the new HTML working group.

# 11:23 pm / html, kevinyank, sitepoint, whatwg

Test stubbing httplib2. Nice demonstration of monkey-patching as part of unit testing in Python.

# 11:24 pm / httplib2, joe-gregorio, monkeypatching, python, testing