Comments on: Recent Tweets http://www.zeldman.com/2010/02/24/recent-tweets/ Web design news and insights since 1995 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:54:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Selected text at Sore Eyes http://www.zeldman.com/2010/02/24/recent-tweets/#comment-53043 Selected text at Sore Eyes Sat, 27 Feb 2010 23:15:28 +0000 http://www.zeldman.com/?p=3833#comment-53043 [...] pointed out a nice CSS3 feature. To set the colour of selected text, try adding this to your style [...] [...] pointed out a nice CSS3 feature. To set the colour of selected text, try adding this to your style [...]

]]> By: karl http://www.zeldman.com/2010/02/24/recent-tweets/#comment-52769 karl Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:34:15 +0000 http://www.zeldman.com/?p=3833#comment-52769 why do you hate chinese new year? ;) why do you hate chinese new year? ;)

]]> By: Jeffrey Zeldman http://www.zeldman.com/2010/02/24/recent-tweets/#comment-52731 Jeffrey Zeldman Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:59:00 +0000 http://www.zeldman.com/?p=3833#comment-52731 <blockquote> technologically its been around for ages. </blockquote> You are correct, sir. It has been around for over ten years. http://www.alistapart.com/articles/cssatten However, only IE supported it, and IE didn't support it with standard fonts, only with a proprietary font format that Netscape and Opera (and later Firefox, Safari, Chrome, etc.) <i>did not</i> support. The usual browser compatibility stuff; the usual lack of support for standards. More: http://www.zeldman.com/category/webtype/ http://www.alistapart.com/topics/design/typography/ The ALA article stimulated renewed interest in @font-face. Webkit and Mozilla supported it. But there were issues with type designers, IP protection, and formatting ... continued browser and OS compatibility issues ... and so on. Typekit resolves many of these problems; that makes it attractive to many designers. Hence the renewed interest.

technologically its been around for ages.

You are correct, sir.

It has been around for over ten years.

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/cssatten

However, only IE supported it, and IE didn’t support it with standard fonts, only with a proprietary font format that Netscape and Opera (and later Firefox, Safari, Chrome, etc.) did not support. The usual browser compatibility stuff; the usual lack of support for standards.

More: http://www.zeldman.com/category/webtype/

http://www.alistapart.com/topics/design/typography/

The ALA article stimulated renewed interest in @font-face. Webkit and Mozilla supported it. But there were issues with type designers, IP protection, and formatting … continued browser and OS compatibility issues … and so on.

Typekit resolves many of these problems; that makes it attractive to many designers. Hence the renewed interest.

]]> By: Art http://www.zeldman.com/2010/02/24/recent-tweets/#comment-52727 Art Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:13:32 +0000 http://www.zeldman.com/?p=3833#comment-52727 Outside of design blogs why aren't we seeing more embedded fonts on sites? technologically its been around for ages. Is it just that the particular fonts that corporate sites would want to match their branding cannot be licensed? Outside of design blogs why aren’t we seeing more embedded fonts on sites? technologically its been around for ages. Is it just that the particular fonts that corporate sites would want to match their branding cannot be licensed?

]]> By: Mike T. http://www.zeldman.com/2010/02/24/recent-tweets/#comment-52725 Mike T. Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:11:41 +0000 http://www.zeldman.com/?p=3833#comment-52725 This is a great top 11 list. This is a great top 11 list.

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