Category: Browsers
Through a viewport, darkly.
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HTML5, CSS3 default templates
Free for use in all web projects, professional or personal, HTML5 Reset by Monkey Do! is a set of HTML5 and CSS templates that jumpstart web development by removing the styling native to each browser,…
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HTML5 Test
How well does your browser support HTML5? Find out by visiting html5test.com, created by Niels Leenheer with thanks to Henri Sivonen and his HTML5 parser tests. Hat tip: Ralph Resnik.
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Bit o’ nostalgia for the old folks
Thanks, Mr Sippey!
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And now, Google
THE long-planned inevitable has now been announced. With open-source-licensed web fonts, web font hosting, and add-a-line-to-your-header ease of configuration, Google has joined Typekit, Font Squirrel, Ascender, Font Bureau and others in forever changing the meaning…
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Opera loves my web font
And so do my iPhone and your iPad. All it took was a bit o’ the old Richard Fink syntax and a quick drive through the Font Squirrel @Font-Face Kit Generator (featuring Base 64 encoding…
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Opera hates my web font
So I’ve wanted to use a condensed, bold Franklin typeface for my site’s headlines since, well, forever. So I bought Fontspring’s fine Franklin Gothic FS Demi Condensed and licensed it for @font-face use for a…
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The dog ate my bookmarks
It’s been years (or is it weeks?) since something odd, implausible, and inexplicable happened to one or more of my Apple computers that doesn’t happen to anyone else’s. You know you want to hear this.…
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Ed Bott’s Lament
In “IE9: Microsoft’s new browser gets no respect at all,” ZDNet’s Ed Bott sees seething contempt where I intended even-handed calm, and asks why my discussion yesterday of the tone of a months-old IE announcement…
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IE9 preview
Is it getting hot in here? Or is it just the flames? In An Early Look At IE9 for Developers, Dean Hachamovitch, General Manager for Internet Explorer, reports on performance progress, web standards progress (border-radius,…
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Last Tangle in Firefox
Snow Leopard + FontExplorer X screws up fonts in Firefox (especially Helvetica).
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Real type, real drag
@font-face and browser performance: the bad news.
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Findmebyip.com tells you your IP details and uses Modernizr to determine your browsers’ support for the latest CSS & HTML5 features.
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Why Standards Fail
An old (2000) essay by CSS co-creator Bert Bos, ostensibly written to explain the principles behind W3C standards development, actually sheds light on what separates great design from the muck we normally wade through. It…