Simon Willison’s Weblog

Two visions. It looks like Mark Pilgrim is going to be joining Hixie at Google.

# 8:32 am / mark-pilgrim, ian-hickson, google

Flash vs. Ajax: It’s time to expand your toolbox. Dan Webb offers his smart, pragmatic take on the Flash vs. Ajax permathread.

# 9:49 am / dan-webb, flash, ajax, flex

Launch Late to Launch Often. “The bottom line being that you want to invest pre-launch such that you optimize for innovation post-launch.”

# 9:50 am / feedburner, dick-costolo

A Zoned Defense. Using JavaScript’s date.getTimezoneOffset() to detect the user’s timezone and stash it in a cookie.

# 9:51 am / timezones, javascript

DED|Chain JavaScript Library (via) Dustin’s new JavaScript library, which puts a JQuery style chained API on top of YUI.

# 10:36 am / jquery, yui, dustin-diaz, dedchain, javascript

Subversion Tips. To edit a Subversion log entry: svn propset --revprop -r XXX svn:log “New message here”

# 2:59 pm / subversion

JavaScript/CSS Font Detector (via) Really clever trick: detects the fonts that you have installed by writing out some text and measuring its dimensions.

# 11:20 pm / javascript, css, fonts