Category: Browsers

Through a viewport, darkly.

  • HTML5, CSS3 default templates

    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,…

  • HTML5 Test

    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.

  • SlideShowPro adds HTML5

    SlideShowPro adds HTML5

    Most of us web folk are hybrids of one sort or another, but Todd Dominey was one of the first web designers to combine exceptional graphic design talent with serious mastery of code. Being so…

  • Bit o’ nostalgia for the old folks

    Bit o’ nostalgia for the old folks

    Thanks, Mr Sippey!

  • And now, Google

    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…

  • Opera loves my web font

    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…

  • Opera hates my web font

    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…

  • The dog ate my bookmarks

    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.…

  • Ed Bott’s Lament

    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…

  • IE9 preview

    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,…

  • Last Tangle in Firefox

    Last Tangle in Firefox

    Snow Leopard + FontExplorer X screws up fonts in Firefox (especially Helvetica).

  • Chicago Deep Dish

    Chicago Deep Dish

    AEA Chicago, wrapped.

  • Real type, real drag

    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.

  • Why Standards Fail

    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…