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2007 August Archive

The web needs more & better fonts

Håkon Wium Lie has written another call for more attention to be paid to typography on the web. I’m in complete agreement; being limited to only a small handful of ‘safe’ fonts was okay for a while, as it made people think about the best way to present those fonts; it’s fast becoming a limitation, however — when we’re using images and Flash to get around the problem, it’s way past time to address it.

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Seeing the light on microformats

It took me a while to see the benefits of microformats, but now I’m definitely there. In October 2006, the UK WSG meeting was all about microformats, and I decided it was too faddy, too niche for me, and that I wouldn’t bother. I regret that now.
The first thing that changed my mind for me was […]

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Delicious: One of the best free fonts around

I’ve done a few small tweaks on the design of my blog; it’s still not the way I had it in my head — my design skills don’t match my ideas, unfortunately — but it’s getting there, at least. I’ve had a first pass at creating a logo and a matching favicon, both of which will be further developed.

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CSS 3 and HTML 5: Simple Semantics

Interesting times to be a web developer, as HTML 5 and CSS 3 are both on the (somewhat distant) horizon. I’ve just written about the Advanced Layout module on CSS3.info, IBM developer works have a nice introduction to the new elements of HTML 5, and Wikipedia has a chart of current browser implementation.
In a few(?) […]

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Five simple steps to alleviate IE6 frustration

A post called Trash All IE Hacks! on the (rather lovely) Web Designer Wall blog has attracted a huge amount of comments recently with its call to stop pandering to those who have the audacity to still be using the previous version of Internet Explorer (approx. 80% of visitors on one site I manage), and […]

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Jeffrey Zeldman: King of Web Standards

Jeffrey Zeldman: King of Web Standards serves as an interesting profile of the standardista, as well as being a history of standards and a primer on their importance.

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Aside

I’m writing about the CSS3 Multi-column layout module and I notice that WebKit supports a series of proprietary properties: –webkit-column-break-after, –webkit-column-break-before, and –webkit-column-break-inside. However, despite the documentation saying that they’re implemented in Safari 3+, I can’t seem to get any of them to work.

Has anyone reading this ever seen an example of these in action? I’ve searched for demos but have found nothing. If you know anything about this, please leave me a comment; your help would be gratefully appreciated.

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