Posts Tagged ‘html5’

New Python Library: Bleach

We've released another Python library: Bleach, for sanitizing HTML and automatically linking URLs in text, that we're using on addons.mozilla.org and support.mozilla.com. It's based on html5lib, which we chose because of its foundation in web standards and its active development community. Bleach is available on Github and PyPI. Bleach uses a tree-walking approach to automatically link URLs that I think is pretty interesting. I wrote a short post outlining the method. Read More »


HTML5 Audio Soundboard

pre { font-size:110%; } A few months ago, one of my famous web developer co-workers had an oh-so-special bug filed against him requesting sound bites of some of his more famous sayings. He closed this bug with great success and all was well. Fast forward to today and not all is well. While we have our sound clips, they are not easily accessible; lying dormant on our hard drives and MP3 players. Well folks, today I have solved this problem. I give you the ClouserW soundboard: ... Read More »