Simon Willison’s Weblog

Internet Explorer 8 Readiness Toolkit. The new built-in development tools look similar enough to Firebug to make me very happy. Also of interest: Selectors API (for fast getElementsBySelector), CSS 2.1 support, support for XHTML style namespaces in HTML, an interesting Web Slices feature based on the hAtom microformat and 6 connections per host (up from 2) which should make Comet easier.

# 5th March 2008, 6:28 pm / comet, css, hatom, ie8, javascript, microformats, namespaces, selectors, standards

lxml.cssselect (via) lxml includes an implementation of CSS 3 selectors, which compiles them to XPath expressions. Should be a useful tool for parsing Microformats from Python.

# 24th September 2007, 11:57 pm / css, css3, libxml2, lxml, microformats, python, selectors, xpath

soupselect. My simple extension to BeautifulSoup that allows you to grab elements using CSS selectors; should be useful for parsing microformats.

# 28th February 2007, 1:47 pm / beautifulsoup, css, microformats, python, soupselect