Opinions, updates and general news regarding the latest design related developments …
A few weeks ago I started work on a ecommerce project with a budget. As with many projects on a tight budget and indeed some without, the lack of budget was made up with some open source assistance. This takes the sting out of some of the development costs and thankfully for ecommerce products there [...]
So Google have quite firmly stepped on the toes of Facebook and Twitter and maybe even Foursquare with their recent addition to Google Mail – Buzz.
Now I’m not exactly an early adopter when it comes to social tools. I have a Twitter account that I seldom use. Although the concept of Twitter interests me the [...]
I’ve been chewing on this for a while, my opinion on CSS3 that is. It is admittedly difficult to judge a spec. that has yet to be finalized but thus far, for me, CSS3 is making all the right noises. I couldn’t care any less for the animations and transitions but multiple backgrounds, border images [...]
My recent post on fixing ClearType issues in IE7 and IE8 sparked some great conversation and in the process educated me a lot further on the existing pittfalls of @font-face embedding.
My original fix, like many, was born out of pure necessisity. I needed a solution to allow me to present smoother embedded type faces for [...]
So since I last posted about the joys and ultimate instability of the @font-face CSS property I’ve been keeping both eyes peeled for any further progress from the incredibly smart people who solve these kinds of problems. Progress over the last few months has been rapid …
Google @font-face and you’ll be hit with thousands of results, articles explaining how to use it and the great flexibility this CSS 3 property introduces to designers moving into the future. Dig a little deeper and you’ll discover that while @font-face is incredibly useful for designers, it is ultimately flawed and doomed for failure in its current form.
