Monthly Archives: May 2009

Revolution in web typography is almost here?

Looks like the revolution in web typography will be here faster, than we all suspected. But will it be what people asked for?
Small Batch Inc. announced today Typekit – “The easiest way to use real fonts on your website”. From the scraps of information available today, we know, that Typekit is a platform working with [...]

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A new hope

Ladies and gentlemen, you’re witnessing the beginning of a revolution – “Axel” font family designed by Erik Spiekermann will be embeddable via @font-face. FontShop’s move could push other big players to update their EULAs and let us all reap benefits from the new era of web typography.

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View Blip.pl avatars in hi-res

Blip.pl is more or less a Polish equivalent of Twitter. If you upload a photo as an avatar, it will be resized, but the original hi-res image is still stored on the server. To view it, just drag hi-res avatar into your bookmarks bar, and click it while visiting other users’ dashboards.

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Flickr: from thumbnail to photo page

Have you ever came across a thumbnail of an awesome photo/graphic linked somewhere without any info about the author?
Thumbnail address:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3276/2635299642_1792a9d755.jpg
Link redirecting to photo page:
http://www.flickr.com/photo.gne?id=2635299642

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Insanity is just a state of mind

Paul Hayes came up with 3D Cube using CSS transformations:

What you see is pure HTML+CSS(!) rendered by Webkit/Firefox3.5.

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State of upcoming Firefox 3.5

Alongside with newest WebKit builds, Mozilla is adding lots of new and promising features to Gecko:

HTML5 and @font-face support!
Media Queries, allowing website/webapp developers to load certain stylesheets depending on the device properties, like:
display’s aspect ratio, bits per color, color/monochrome display, etc.
Nearly all of those properties accept min/max prefixes, and can be combined using logical operators,
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