Archives for August, 2006

Adobe Web Fonts — Neither Likely Nor Desirable

31st Aug 2006

Andrei Herasimchuk from Design by Fire (and ex-Adobe employee) has written an open letter to Adobe, asking them to release a set of core fonts for the web into the public domain. These fonts would then be available to the…

Widon’t for Movable Type

26th Aug 2006 — 12 comments

Widon’t for Movable Type is a plugin to prevent widows from appearing in titles and entry headers. Widows are single words, left on their lonesome on a line at the end of a paragraph, and generally look poo. Widon’t simply…

IE7 PNG Transparency and Flash

23rd Aug 2006

Update: 25th August 2006 This article relates to IE7 Beta3. A day after I wrote this article, Microsoft released IE7 RC1 which seems to have fixed this problem (at least, according to the tests below). So, hooray! Alpha support…

De-Hacking CSS for IE7 Beta 3

13th Aug 2006

This is an update on my previous post about checking CSS hacks in IE7. I’ll run through a CSS browser check using Ingenious Ireland as an example. Getting the tools together When you install Internet Explorer 7 Beta 3, as…

The CSS Hack Rapture Is Nearly Upon Us

1st Aug 2006 — 1 comment

News that Microsoft will be auto-updating XP users to IE7 has been making the rounds, and is generally being seen as A Good Thing. Such swift, mass adoption of a major upgrade will certainly be a unique experience to witness….