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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 [...]
You could say I’ve become somewhat obsessed with @font-face embedding over the past few months. I’ve most certainly fell head over heels for the @font-face generator from fontsquirrel.com (see the recap below).
One thing however that has always bothered me is IE7 and IE8’s rendering of embedded fonts, so today with IE tester at hand and [...]
This plugin is a simple fix for anyone having issues in IE7 and 8 when embedding custom fonts using the @font-face selector. Microsoft’s ClearType functionality can at times cause embedded fonts to render hard and jagged as opposed to smooth and anti-aliased.
You can see the article that this plugin originates from here. If you can [...]
With the usage of IE6 finally declining the majority of us can now afford to be a bit more forgiving in our cross browser testing. Despite this in some circumstances the percentage of a site’s IE6 users is still far to high to do anything other than link a separate stylesheet and spend hours writing [...]
XSLT is a great language used with XML files and is a language that we hope to cover a bit more of here on istmay. If you are new to XSLT and are dealing with stylesheets the following snippet of code could be invaluable.
