Archive for the 'web' Category

Opentype features in Firefox

Annotated list of elements in HTML5, ranging from the classic <p> to <base>, <time>, etc.

"With an advertising world keen to use every inch of a medium for brand or product experience, it is becoming increasingly popular to design websites with full-browser backgrounds. Using CSS, this can be achieved quite easily. Just drop a huge background image in a page with one line of code"

text-rendering css property that seems to mostly work just in safari.

Straightforward method to serve HTML5 and automatically fall back to flash if necessary, uses no javascript.

Brief summary of HTML through the years.

The BBC internet team details ongoing efforts to redesign the BBC's many presences on the web to work better, and better together.

Interesting demo of next-gen CSS possibilities.

Overview of most of the current options for web typography.

Links to sites useful to designers.

Don't hate, tolerate.

One-stop shopping for open source type, suitable for @use in css3.

URL-based methods for adding events to Yahoo and Google (and MSN) calendars. Also includes link for quick documentation of creating and serving .ics files.

Nice portfolio site.

I've been halfheartedly searching for a way to listen to radio streams on my iPhone more or less since I got it, really just for WFMU. And here they've had some kind of fancy server thinger set up for the past year to use with Safari and the native Quicktime client on the phone.

I don't even really remember a bunch of the stuff I worked on while I was there. A lot of it was purely logistical and a lot was also very centered on helping to engineer the content management system so that it made as much sense to not-entirely-technical users as possible. I do remember being the driving force behind RSS feed adoption and management, and helped set up podcasting, and managed the transition to IE7 in the CSS (though somewhat haphazardly). Heady days. Looks like the whole site's recently been reskinned - mostly for the better, though I think at the expense of some necessary contrast and typographic refinements. The one thing I remember working on late in my tenure at the Council was a video player that scrolled along as you read a transcript. That was tricky for someone who doesn't know JS. Sort of sad to see that go. Also, anyone who likes can ask me about "Relations," my greatest innovation at the Council.

This looks promising.

NERD TIME.