Simon Willison’s Weblog

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 / safari, contenteditable

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

Friendster goes PHP (via) Notable performance improvement over the old JSP/Tomcat setup.

# 29th June 2004, 10:18 pm

Jonathan Schwartz’s Weblog (via) The first Fortune 500 board member with a weblog?

# 29th June 2004, 5:22 pm

San Francisco Photos, June 2004 (via) Photos from my trip to San Francisco.

# 29th June 2004, 4:43 pm

Zeldman on why drop down menus suck. Good for pointing people to.

# 29th June 2004, 4:39 pm / jeffrey-zeldman

Developing a URL structure for broadcast radio sites... Anally-retentive URL design. Love it!

# 28th June 2004, 4:38 pm

PHP, XML, and Character Encodings: a tale of sadness, rage, and (data-)loss (via) Fixing some very funky behaviour in PHP’s XML parser.

# 26th June 2004, 11:24 pm / php, xml

Developing With Web Standards (via) Next time someone asks you about standards, point them to this.

# 26th June 2004, 10:55 pm

Coalition: Vast Majority Of Iraqis Still Alive. So at least there’s some good news...

# 25th June 2004, 8:22 pm

FCKeditor—The text editor for Internet (via) Looks like the best cross-browser rich text editor package yet (LGPL).

# 19th June 2004, 12:37 am

Accessing your Gmail inbox with Python. Adrian’s ultra-cool, TOS-violating gmail hack.

# 18th June 2004, 11:25 pm

Dynamically underlining accesskeys (via) Nifty DHTML.

# 18th June 2004, 9:42 pm

Microsoft Research DRM talk. Cory tells MS why they should sit out on DRM.

# 18th June 2004, 4:51 pm

The IE team’s Group Program Manager speaks (via) Comment on Channel 9, emphasizes importance of backwards compatibility.

# 17th June 2004, 5:45 pm

Linus vs. Tanenbaum (via) Linux vs. MINIX back in 1992.

# 17th June 2004, 5:07 pm

Firefox Extension: Bookmarks Synchronizer (via) Very, very cool. Syncs bookmarks via an FTP server.

# 17th June 2004, 4:36 pm / firefox