http://simonwillison.net/2009-08-14T10:38:57+00:00Simon Willison2009-08-14T10:38:57+00:002009-08-14T10:38:57+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Aug/14/neil/#atom-tag

<blockquote cite="http://neil.fraser.name/news/2009/08/14/"><p>Last night I woke up at 2am and realized that there was a fundamental problem with cursor preservation in today’s real-time collaborative applications [...] MobWrite now has what I believe to be the most advanced cursor preservation algorithm available.</p></blockquote> <p class="cite">&mdash; <a href="http://neil.fraser.name/news/2009/08/14/">Neil Fraser</a></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/collaboration">collaboration</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/mobwrite">mobwrite</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/neil-fraser">neil-fraser</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/realtime">realtime</a></p>

2009-07-28T12:46:54+00:002009-07-28T12:46:54+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Jul/28/neil/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://neil.fraser.name/news/2009/07/27/">JSONP Memory Leak</a></strong></p> Neil Fraser advocates iterating over and deleting every property on a JSONP script DOM node after you removeChild it from the DOM, to protect against memory leaks of “in excess of 15 MB per hour”. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/javascript">javascript</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/jsonp">jsonp</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/memoreleaks">memoreleaks</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/neil-fraser">neil-fraser</a></p>

2009-01-24T23:57:02+00:002009-01-24T23:57:02+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Jan/24/neil/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://neil.fraser.name/writing/sync/">Neil Fraser: Differential Synchronization</a></strong></p> Paper describing a robust method for “keeping two or more copies of the same document synchronized with each other in real-time”, over a variable network connection using clever diff algorithms. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/algorithms">algorithms</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/diff">diff</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/neil-fraser">neil-fraser</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/paper">paper</a></p>

2009-01-24T23:55:18+00:002009-01-24T23:55:18+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Jan/24/googlemobwrite/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://code.google.com/p/google-mobwrite/">google-mobwrite</a></strong></p> Neil Fraser’s terrifyingly clever differential synchronization algorithm (for SubEthaEdit-style collaboration over the web) is now available as an open source Python and JavaScript library. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/collaboration">collaboration</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/google">google</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/javascript">javascript</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/mobwrite">mobwrite</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/neil-fraser">neil-fraser</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/open-source">open-source</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/python">python</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/subethaedit">subethaedit</a></p>

2007-06-09T18:15:05+00:002007-06-09T18:15:05+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2007/Jun/9/googlediffmatchpatch/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://code.google.com/p/google-diff-match-patch/">google-diff-match-patch</a></strong></p> Robust algorithms to perform the operations required for synchronizing plain text, in Java, JavaScript and Python. <p><small></small>Via <a href="http://neil.fraser.name/news/2007/06/09/">Neil Fraser</a></small></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/diff">diff</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/google">google</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/java">java</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/javascript">javascript</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/neil-fraser">neil-fraser</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/open-source">open-source</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/python">python</a></p>

2007-01-13T12:28:53+00:002007-01-13T12:28:53+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2007/Jan/13/neil/#atom-tag

<blockquote cite="http://neil.fraser.name/news/2007/01/13/"><p>The JavaScript alert(), confirm() and prompt() functions in Firefox, Opera and MSIE (but not Safari) will truncate the message after any null character. So an unsuspecting programmer who inserts user-provided text into one of these dialog boxes opens up an opportunity for the user to rewrite the bottom of the dialog box.</p></blockquote> <p class="cite">&mdash; <a href="http://neil.fraser.name/news/2007/01/13/">Neil Fraser</a></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/firefox">firefox</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/javascript">javascript</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/neil-fraser">neil-fraser</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/security">security</a></p>

2006-11-01T11:42:51+00:002006-11-01T11:42:51+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2006/Nov/1/neil/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://neil.fraser.name/news/2006/11/01/">Neil Fraser: Googled</a></strong></p> I’m obviously not the only person who thought MobWrite was total genius. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/google">google</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/neil-fraser">neil-fraser</a></p>

2006-09-11T13:01:59+00:002006-09-11T13:01:59+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2006/Sep/11/neil/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://neil.fraser.name/software/mobwrite/">Neil Fraser: Software: MobWrite</a></strong></p> Very impressive web-based collaborative text editor. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/neil-fraser">neil-fraser</a></p>