Simon Willison’s Weblog

On HTML 5 Drag and Drop. Francisco Tolmasky investigated HTML 5 drag and drop, which allows web apps to implement drag and drop between windows and between the browser and the desktop. He found a number of problems with the spec and proposes detailed solutions.

# 17th August 2009, 12:31 pm / html5, draganddrop, francisco-tolmasky, javascript, standards, 280slides

Building a Better JavaScript Profiler with WebKit. Clever hack from Francisco Tolmasky which solves the problem of JavaScript profilers showing ? as the name of any anonymous functions. He patched the WebKit profiler to look for a displayName attribute on a function and show that as the function name instead.

# 29th April 2009, 11:57 pm / webkit, profiling, javascript, francisco-tolmasky