Simon Willison’s Weblog

Brendan Eich: Popularity. I never knew that Brendan went to Netscape on the promise of “doing Scheme in the browser”.

# 7:30 am / brendan-eich, javascript, netscape, scheme

The Royal Mint: The New Designs Revealed. Matthew Dent’s design for the new UK coinage is inspired—absolutely beautiful. Can’t wait to get my hands on some of these.

# 7:42 am / coins, design, matthew-dent, mint, royalmint, uk

Advanced JavaScript Debugging Techniques. There’s more to JavaScript debugging than just Firebug.

# 7:51 am / debugging, firebug, javascript, sitepen

i am near (via) Inspired by wikinear.com and powered by FireEagle, currently just showing nearby pubs from OpenStreetMap but with more stuff planned. I love the URL scheme—pubs.iamnear.net.

# 7:53 am / fireeagle, iamnear, openstreetmap, pubs, tom-taylor, urls, wikinear

Implementing a syntax-higlighting JavaScript editor in JavaScript. Appropriately subtitled “a brutal odyssey to the dark side of the DOM tree”. Some seriously clever trickery going on here.

# 8:27 am / dom, javascript, syntaxhighlighting

Why the webstandards world appears to be choosing Django. I’m not convinced that this is a definite trend, but it certainly makes for an interesting discussion.

# 8:33 am / django, gareth-rushgrove, python, web-standards

Comet at the Highland Fling. I thoroughly enjoyed the Highland Fling yesterday. Here are the slides from my talk on Comet.

# 10:13 am / comet, conferences, highlandfling08, javascript, talks

Hash Collisions (The Poisoned Message Attack). Demonstrates the MD5 weakness by providing two deliberately engineered PostScript documents with the same MD5 hash but radically different rendered output.

# 7:24 pm / collisions, hashing, md5, postscript, security