Simon Willison’s Weblog

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# 21st January 2006, 6:33 pm

Tag Soup: Crazy parsing adventures. More bizzare browser behaviour.

# 20th January 2006, 9:57 am

Unofficial documentation of iPhoto 6.0 photocasting feeds. Biting commentary from Mark Pilgrim.

# 18th January 2006, 8:57 pm

Technorati Weblog: Blog That Chart! (via) This is a pretty cool new feature from Technorati.

# 17th January 2006, 10:45 pm / technorati

Most Underrated API? The Yahoo! Term Extractor. Completely true. It’s awesome.

# 17th January 2006, 10:42 pm

DHS Funding Open Source Security. Paying for “source code analysis technology” coverage of Linux, Apache, PostgreSQL and more.

# 17th January 2006, 10:18 pm / apache, dhs, linux, open-source, postgresql, security

Devious Tactic Snags Phone Data. Social engineering with the “mumble” attack.

# 17th January 2006, 3 pm

Web 3.0. A Zeldman classic.

# 17th January 2006, 2:52 pm

China, Censorship and Companies: My Thoughts (via) The inside story from Jared Kim.

# 16th January 2006, 11:41 pm

Showing Perfect Time. Includes a handy strftime implementation for JavaScript.

# 16th January 2006, 10:28 pm

Note to our readers regarding the recent changes to naplesnews.com. Now powered by Django. And they’ve ditched registration!

# 15th January 2006, 12:48 am

Google Local—“hotels in new york”. Sponsored results (the blue pins) on Google Maps.

# 12th January 2006, 7:51 pm

DateBox—Intuitive Date Input Selection. Mixes JSCalendar with my better date input stuff.

# 12th January 2006, 10:23 am

JSLog. Another JS logging tool. Takes up very little space when closed.

# 11th January 2006, 10:10 am

Optimus keyboard. Every key is a colour screen.

# 9th January 2006, 6:27 pm

Parsed.org (via) Computing tips site, powered by Django.

# 7th January 2006, 11:59 am

3D Maps BETA. Firefox 1.5 only; uses SVG.

# 6th January 2006, 11 am

Microsoft releases WMF update. Thank goodness for that.

# 6th January 2006, 2:34 am

Lego mindstorms NXT. Lego announce a new mindstorms Robot, Mac compatible, with bluetooth.

# 5th January 2006, 11:58 am

Running a Service in China. An MSN Spaces employee responds.

# 4th January 2006, 8:59 pm

@media 2006. Back for another year, in London on the 15-16th of June.

# 4th January 2006, 4:23 pm

Creating a Star Rater using CSS (via) It’s been a while since I saw a new CSS trick as neat as this one.

# 4th January 2006, 12:14 am

Microsoft takes down Chinese blogger (via) Fascinating analysis of how easy it is to take the low-road when dealing with China.

# 3rd January 2006, 5:38 pm

SANS WMF Exploit FAQ. This is really good.

# 2nd January 2006, 2:59 am

SANS recommend unofficial WMF patch (via) Unprecedented—but MS response is just too slow.

# 2nd January 2006, 2:52 am

Ajax Link Tracker. Really neat stats tracking/overlay trick.

# 30th December 2005, 7:58 pm

Canvas in IE (via) Cunning hack using .htc and VML.

# 30th December 2005, 3:39 pm

Microsoft customer warning: Bad exploit in Windows. 0-day. Sounds really nasty.

# 29th December 2005, 12:03 am

The Dojo Manual (via) Dojo finally gets some really good extensive documentation.

# 24th December 2005, 6:21 pm / documentation, dojo, javascript

Chris Shiflett: Google XSS Example (via) UTF-7 is a nasty vector for XSS.

# 24th December 2005, 5:21 pm / chris-shiflett, google, security, xss