Web — 遠野くん

June 30th, 2010

Cross-Browser Kerning-Pairs & Ligatures

Improved handling of kerning pairs and ligatures in modern browsers using the text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;declaration.

The declaration is currently supported by:
Safari 5, The Webkit Nightlies and Chrome.

Firefox already uses optimizeLegibility by default for text sizes above 20px.

Lovely. You learn new things all the time. I love how this looks, and am experimenting it on my sites as of now.

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May 11th, 2010

HTML5 for Web Designers – First of a Book Apart

HTML5 for Web Designers has a great website too.

Here’s something I have been looking forward to for a long while. The first in the line ‘A Book Apart‘, comes ‘HTML5 for Web Designers’ by Jeremy Keith. A List Apart has been a consistent periodical of excellent writing and talent, so it comes to no surprise that I have eagerly awaited their first foray into Dead Tree Print. Selling for $18, preorders for June shipping, this is definitely something to look forward to.

Their Description:

The HTML5 spec is 900 pages and hard to read. HTML5 for Web Designers is 85 pages and fun to read. Easy choice.

HTML5 is the longest HTML specification ever written. It is also the most powerful, and in some ways, the most confusing. What do accessible, content-focused standards-based web designers and front-end developers need to know? And how can we harness the power of HTML5 in today’s browsers?

In this brilliant and entertaining user’s guide, Jeremy Keith cuts to the chase, with crisp, clear, practical examples, and his patented twinkle and charm.

Orders will ship in June.

A few extra links of interest in relation:

Jeffery Zeldman gives his introduction to this book.
Jason Santa Maria talks about designing the series. A lot of good talk on the typographic choices for this endeavour.
The first chapter is available for your perusal on A List Apart. I haven’t read any of Keith’s work before but if it keeps being as good as this little teaser, it will be worth the wait until June.

December 17th, 2009

Death to Lorem Ipsum

This is enough. I think I have had all I can take of Lorem Ipsum. Don’t get me wrong, I still love the weird quirky latin that we all use to pad out content but at the moment, it is just getting in my way. For the last month I have been stuck working around chunks of Lorem Ipsum and some example images, and been stopped from doing what I should have really been doing; blogging.

Sure I should still be working on the design, and building it, but I forgot along the way really the point of the blog, that being the content. So instead of the mangled Latin or some random dummy text, let me start finally blogging again, and give myself some real content to design around.

Here goes nothing…