posted on: 30 October 2008
“ The first W3C Recommendation for CSS level 2 (1998) included a feature called “Web Fonts” to deal with the situation where a style sheet referred to a font that wasn't present on the user's machine. One thing it allowed was a link to a remote font file so that it could be downloaded. Only Microsoft decided to implement it. ”
posted on: 24 October 2008
“ This site intends to survey all of the signs in New York City from 14th Street to 42nd Street. Of course, this is not possible, since there would be tens of thousands of signs within this area. The 29 crosstown streets are each 10 to 11 blocks long (1st Ave. to 11th or 12th Aves.). This gives some 300 blocks, each containing, say, 100 signs of one type or another. This would total 30,000. Even if we eliminated the repetitive traffic signs (actually, each one is different, in setting if not otherwise), the remainder would probably be over 20,000 ... ”
I'm Italian so I couldn't resist..I don't know any of the foods written on the sign...maybe Frank is not Italian? Just kidding, I actually like this web site quite a lot.
posted on: 23 October 2008
A very interesting article on Digital Web Magazine :
posted on: 22 October 2008
“ The final test for running text is legibility, so failing to notice would mean the style was not imposing on the text. The texture was good. When they occur, stylistic interruptions provide me with food for thought. If the punctuation interrupts the meaning, it demands fresh scrutiny. Double quotation marks seemed to interrupt by emphasizing too heavily. ”
posted on: 16 October 2008
A Javascript function to check if a variable is empty:
posted on: 11 October 2008
An interesting article on color contrast:
posted on: 10 October 2008
On A List Apart:
On Digital Web Magazine :
posted on: 06 October 2008
posted on: 02 October 2008
posted on: 01 October 2008
TYPECHART lets you flip through, preview and compare web typography while retrieving the CSS :
