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Typekit is gonna be huge

May 28th, 2009, No Comments

You know what’s the best thing about the Internet? That it keeps changing. Techniques we use, time we spent on doing stuff – everything gets better and better.

Right now probably the hottest topic on building websites is a little CSS thing called font-face. As more browser supports embedding fonts based on the URLs, more people wants to use it. And that’s an awesome thing – ability to use fonts you want on you web page without not accessible at all Flash and other techniques trying to do that way around. But the main issue with embedding URLs, is licensing. Trust me, there is not lot fonts we can use freely without legal consequences on our web page.

And even if we try to remain clean, it all takes too much time - finding proper fonts and dealing with its license troubles. Fortunately, this is all about to change thanks to Typekit.

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ALA Survey, 2008

April 8th, 2009, 1 Comment

A List Apart, an online magazine for people who make websites, published, as every year, results from their survey… for people who make websites, of course. Most noticeable thing in these results for me, is the form. All charts and tables are built with CSS, which is amazing. No pointless use of heavy images existing only to give you more kilobytes to download – everything is interpreted right in your web browser, thanks to magic of cascading style sheets. Thank you.
About the results itself – I’m not sure if there’s anything to be said, guys from A List Apart made all what’s neccessary to present you findings as they should be presented. For us, readers, the only job to do, is to read this and bring up few conclusions. Now get out of here and read.