Simon Willison’s Weblog

Introducing the Google Contacts Data API. Brilliant! (and about time)—now there’s no excuse for asking your users for their Gmail username and password so you can import contacts from their address book. Yahoo! and Microsoft need to catch up on this one fast.

# 11:29 pm / apis, contacts, google, microsoft, portablesocialnetworks, yahoo

JavaScript in Internet Explorer 8. John Resig’s analysis. News to me: IE 8 doesn’t support the W3C event model—I had assumed that would be a priority.

# 11:59 pm / ie8, javascript, john-resig, standards