Simon Willison’s Weblog

What is the Open Web? Tantek Çelik describes the three pillars of the open web: open publishing of content, freedom to code and implement the standards needed to access that content and open access to that content over an unfiltered internet.

# 10:47 am / openweb, recovered, tantekcelik

Schneier on Stuxnet. Stuxnet now rivals Wikileaks as the real life plot most likely to have leaked from science fiction.

# 10:57 am / bruce-schneier, security, recovered, stuxnet

What is a Polyfill? Useful new term: a Polyfill is “a shim that mimics a future API providing fallback functionality to older browsers”.

# 11:48 am / browsers, recovered, polyfill, remysharp

PaintbrushJS. Impressive open source JavaScript library from Dave Shea for applying image filters (sharpen, blur, emboss, greyscale etc) to the canvas element.

# 11:53 am / canvas, dave-shea, javascript, recovered