Microsoft WOFFles On SVG Web Fonts In IE9

08.07.2010

In a post on the IE Blog, the following excuse was given for not supporting SVG Fonts: “As IE9 has implemented more of the standards that developers use and value, IE9’s Acid3 score has continued to rise. The remaining points involve two particular technologies (SVG Fonts and SMIL animation of SVG) that are in transition. [...]

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Fixing Web Fonts, A Case Study

08.03.2010

Zoe Gillenwater writes about web design, especially Cascading Style Sheets. She’ll be speaking at John Allsopp’s Web Directions USA in Atlanta on Sept 21 in a presentation titled Efficient and Effective Design With CSS3. A few months ago she announced a new book in the works called Stunning CSS3. I went to the book’s dedicated [...]

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E-Book Publishers Go Delusional

07.29.2010

Book publishers seem lately like a group of prep-school kids who’ve gotten into an altercation with a bunch of gang-bangers on their way home. Pepper spray versus automatic weapons. Yeesh. An article today in the NYTimes, E-Books Fly Beyond Mere Text, tells of publishers once again revisiting the fantasy land of “multimedia”. This latest phase, [...]

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To Kindle Or Not To Kindle

07.28.2010

Decisions, decisions. Today my wife the doctoral candidate asked my advice on whether to buy a book she needed as a P-Book or the Kindle edition. (We have the Kindle DX.) The name of the book is The Structure Of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn. (Strangely, I remembered both the book and the author’s name. [...]

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Two Joes On The State Of E-Books

07.26.2010

Everybody knows that books are special. Books require special “formatting”. And special E-Readers, of course, which will – via small nasal attachments – give you that special new book smell, too. (Don’t believe it? It’s already available as an aerosol.) Just remember that what “everybody knows” is useless information. And upon close inspection, usually flat-out [...]

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On Facebook, Nobody Knows You’re A Dick

07.12.2010

My wife spends at least as much time online as I do. But there’s a few things about digital tech that she just doesn’t quite grasp. She doesn’t get that computers are basically stupid. And that, if you set up an account on a site using a particular spelling of your name or an email [...]

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Web Font Frolic In Ireland

07.07.2010

The Association Typographique Internationale (ATYPI) is holding it’s annual conference in Dublin, Ireland this year. I’ll be giving a talk on web font formats titled Destination Web on the second day of the conference during its two-day Pre-Face warm-up. The full schedule was posted today. Hey Mommy, Look At Me! I’m quite excited to be [...]

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E-Book Formats: The Mad Scramble

07.01.2010

I haven’t been reporting much on developments in the e-reader biz lately. Simple reason: I can’t keep up and I don’t think it pays at this point to even try. I’m enjoying the shake out, though. The mad scramble is being driven by two factors: 1) Screen technology has gone mobile in a big way [...]

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FontCONF In Minneapolis/St. Paul

06.18.2010

It’s Tomorrow, And Free. Please come. If you’re in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area and you’re into design, web design, web fonts, fonts, typography, or anything at all like the forementioned, please come to FontCONF tomorrow, Saturday, June 19th at: CoCo – Coworking and Collaborative Space 213 4th St E., St Paul, MN FontCONF Organized by [...]

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Old Farts, New Media

06.12.2010

Rochester, New York Over the past two days here at the Future Of Reading Conference at RIT there’s been two talks by publishing industry insiders – Molly Barton of Penguin Books and Jane Friedman, former longtime President and CEO of Harper Collins Publishers Worldwide. There’s a big difference in age between them. One of them [...]

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