Bonne journée du chapeau bleu! Now you know how to say “Happy Blue Beanie Day” in French.

Monday 30 November is International Blue Beanie Day in support of web standards. Get your toque on, post a photo, and pop a beanie on your Twitter, Flickr, and Facebook avatars to help spread the word. Let’s take this viral, kids!

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Filed under: Blue Beanie Day, Code, Community, Design, Education, engagement, Web Design, Web Design History, Web Standards

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Snow Leopard plus FontExplorer X equals screwed-up fonts in Firefox (especially Helvetica).

• Google Search on “Snow Leopard Firefox FontExplorer X” reveals numerous incidents of CSS displaying incorrectly in Firefox (wrong font weight, wrong font style) when Font Explorer X is on Snow Leopard Macs.
• My Flickr thread contains a screenshot demonstrating the problem plus a useful discussion of causes and possible workarounds.
• Disabling FontExplorer X solves the problem.

Update: Buying FontExplorer X Pro and clearing font caches also solves the problem. (The problem is with Apple’s fonts, not with Firefox or FontExplorer X, but it takes mediation to fix it.)

Filed under: Browsers, bugs, Compatibility, CSS, Design, Fonts, OSX

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