Simon Willison’s Weblog

XULRunner 1.8.0.1 Release Notes (via) First stable developer release—create cross-platform apps with XUL.

# 6th February 2006, 12:38 am

MSN UK in IE7 beta. Definitely needs some work.

# 2nd February 2006, 12:12 pm

Please Guido, pick me, pick me! This made me smile.

# 1st February 2006, 10 pm

Unicode tutorial in Spanish. I don’t speak the language but it looks great from the diagrams.

# 1st February 2006, 12:02 am

Channel9 Wiki: InternetExplorerProgrammingBugs. This page is a gold mine.

# 31st January 2006, 12:28 pm

PHP Conference UK. In London on Feb 10th. Early bird rate is a bargain at fifty quid.

# 31st January 2006, 9:07 am / php

Yahoo! RSS Feeds. That’s a big list of RSS feeds.

# 30th January 2006, 8:51 pm

Replace callback emulation for safari. Neat fix for a particularly annoying Safari bug.

# 24th January 2006, 5:05 pm / safari

Closures And Highly Readable Sequence Sorting Customization. Really neat usage of closures in Python.

# 24th January 2006, 12:23 am / closures

The Long Snout. O’Reilly announce their beta-book program, and get it exactly right.

# 24th January 2006, 12:20 am

Getting Funky With Scopes and Closures. Mark Wubben has some neat tricks up his sleeve.

# 23rd January 2006, 10:27 am / closures

Video Game Maps (via) Beautiful collection of maps, extracted using scripts and hard work.

# 23rd January 2006, 9:58 am

Mozilla causing XSS in Livejournal. Their recent worm attack was caused by the -moz-binding CSS property.

# 22nd January 2006, 9:37 pm / css, livejournal, mozilla, security, xss

London Underground geographic maps. Generated PNG/SVG files under the LGPL; GPS source data is available.

# 22nd January 2006, 8:32 pm

Xanga Hit By Script Worm (in December) (via) Description of an XSS worm that hit Xanga last month.

# 21st January 2006, 8:47 pm / security, worm, xanga, xss

Google Video and Privacy. Interesting analysis of Google Video’s DRM.

# 21st January 2006, 6:43 pm

LiveJournal Radio! OMG, streaming teen angst!

# 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 / mark-pilgrim

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