Simon Willison’s Weblog

MSFT and Yahoo: two icebergs, roped together. Yahoo!’s engineering platform and culture is Open Source pretty much all the way down. Microsoft’s isn’t. I wonder how that would pan out.

# 5:50 pm / microsoft, open-source, yahoo

Migrating Microsoft Hotmail from FreeBSD to Microsoft Windows 2000. I’d like to see them try that with Yahoo!’s 100+ properties.

# 5:54 pm / freebsd, hotmail, microsoft, open-source, windows, yahoo

Inline SVG in MSIE. Sam Ruby has a neat proof of concept that converts inline SVG (currently only the path element) to the Silverlight equivalent.

# 7:29 pm / sam-ruby, silverlight, svg

Microsoft’s XUL. My take on XAML from back in 2003 seems strangely relevant.

# 11:40 pm / microsoft, silverlight, xaml, xul