Bookmarks for November 16th through December 8th
These are my links for November 16th through December 8th:
- (down)Loading JavaScript as strings - The Gmail mobile team and Charles Jolley from SproutCore have recently published some interesting techniques for loading JavaScript in a deferred manner. Steve Souders goes into some context for using them
- Hosting and Streaming Your Own Videos Securely Using Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (via evolt.org) - There's more than one tutorial out there about creating your own Flash video, and a handful that show how to use Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3) to host them. I discovered recently, rather painfully, that if you want to protect your bandwidth costs by restricting access to the video, the details are sketchy and often conflicting
- The Best Free Web Icons - A nice collection of free web style icons
- Tartley solves the UK Digital Economy Bill - Tartley, one of the better internet commentators on the Digital Economy Bill claims to have solved the problem, by realising that the problem is not the bill, but that the political opinion is that we must be seen to do something…
- TagSoup: Real life HTML SAX Parser for java - Struggling with parsing XML in java? Want something lightweight and simple?
TagSoup is a SAX-compliant parser written in Java that, instead of parsing well-formed or valid XML, parses HTML as it is found in the wild.