Simon Willison’s Weblog

Meet Snowdrop, the baby otter (via) Simply adorable.

# 9th July 2004, 10:35 pm

Is the W3C Becoming Irrelevant? Dare on routing around the W3C.

# 9th July 2004, 3:42 pm

GMailCompose (via) Finally, webmail support for mailto: links.

# 9th July 2004, 3:40 pm

adot’s notblog*: take action. Call for CNET Download.com reviews for Firefox.

# 9th July 2004, 3:39 pm

Café testing (via) A brilliantly easy of conducting quick usability tests.

# 9th July 2004, 6:41 am / usability

Tablespaces (via) Interesting new feature in PostgreSQL 7.5.

# 9th July 2004, 5:58 am / postgresql

Man of the moment. Phil Gyford gets some well-deserved recognition.

# 9th July 2004, 5:45 am / phil-gyford

The Artist’s Statement. Fascinating account of homeland security gone wrong.

# 9th July 2004, 5:37 am

Jeffrey Veen: MP3 Blogs and wget. Quite simply the smartest wget one-liner ever.

# 8th July 2004, 12:28 am

USaviation.com Forums -> Edwards Vp (via) These guys knew before anyone else.

# 7th July 2004, 9:52 pm

Technorati tracks 3 million blogs. Whoa.

# 7th July 2004, 8:05 pm / blogosphere, technorati

Why XML served as text/plain is not well-formed (via) Apparently plain text is intended to be displayed “as-is”.

# 7th July 2004, 3:37 pm / xml

“The Building of Basecamp” Review. Includes insights in to 37 Signals’ process.

# 7th July 2004, 8:34 am

Using the XML HTTP Request object (via) Recently updated to include Safari as well.

# 7th July 2004, 7:07 am / xml

IE5/Mac Band Pass Filter (via) Feed a stylesheet to IE5/Mac only.

# 7th July 2004, 7:02 am

Introducing the Canvas. Most useful HTML extension ever?

# 5th July 2004, 11:13 pm

Question Time: Visited Links. Ooh blimey, I’ve been quoted!

# 4th July 2004, 5:25 pm

Strategies for Long-Term CSS Hack Management (via) Molly on CSS hacks.

# 4th July 2004, 5:19 pm

HTML Language Equals Javascript. More shamefully poor code from MSN.

# 4th July 2004, 4:58 pm

Mike Davidson: HTML Language Equals Javascript.

# 4th July 2004, 4:58 pm

Google PageRank Checksum Calculator. Lord only knows how this works, but it lets you directly query for Google PageRank.

# 4th July 2004, 4:57 pm

Safari to get contenteditable support. Adopts another defacto standard (the last was XMLHttpRequest).

# 3rd July 2004, 11:47 pm

HTML escapes the browser. My take on Dashboard.

# 3rd July 2004, 11:28 pm

Race conditions in security UI. A vulnerability that is even more effective against advanced users (i.e. fast typists).

# 2nd July 2004, 4:14 pm / security, ui

The Allure and Curse of Complexity (via) Discusses the complexity of Windows, BSD and Linux.

# 2nd July 2004, 12:46 am

Why PHP Scales—A Cranky, Snarky Answer (via) Less cranky and snarky than you might think.

# 1st July 2004, 9:54 pm

Internet Explorer Is Dangerous (via) Scott Andrew’s personal “switch” campaign.

# 1st July 2004, 9:51 pm

Subject: Moving on...; To: co-workers. Tantek on quitting Microsoft, and the highlights of his MS career.

# 1st July 2004, 7:30 pm / tantek-celik

XMLStarlet Command Line XML Toolkit (via) Process XML with Unix pipes.

# 30th June 2004, 10:55 pm / xml

’E&P’ Picks Its Annual ’10 Newspapers That Do It Right’. The Journal-World made the list.

# 30th June 2004, 8:55 pm