Browser names, sharks and legal font insanity.
Visual Idiot · Photoshop Simulator
For all designers who are having a hard time switching from Photoshop to the browser, here's a lifelike browser based Photoshop Simulator!
on the story of browser names | don't code today
Here's a very nice story about the names of browsers. It's either based on excellent research or it's just a fantastic story. You should read it. (Here's another article on this subject)
Spice Your Type
Did you know you can use Open Type features on the web? Do you know what Open Type is? Both no? Take a look at this site and switch some features on and off.
Adactio: Journal—Months and years
Filling out the date in a form can be a pain in the ass if not done right. If done right though it can be a pleasure. The problem is that the right way to enter a date is rather different on different devices. Jeremy Keith came up with a nice future friendly solution.
HTML5 Webcam Toy
Photo Booth is hilarious, unfortunately it's only available on iOs and Macs. But now we have this HTML5 Webcam Toy which works with an experimental Opera build you can find right here.
Standardista » CSS Specificity
CSS Specificity is hard and the best way to explain anything that's hard is by using sharks in you example. Estelle Weyl made this very clever specificity chart and she wrote an article that explains it even further. Must read for people who write CSS.
The contenteditable attribute | HTML5 Doctor
When an alement has the contenteditable attribute assigned to it, its content can be changed. This can be used in CMS'es but also in presentations with live CSS coding. Jack Osborne wrote this good in depth article about it. You should read it, you can do nice things with it.
Triangle with Shadow ✿ dabblet.com
One of the things you can not make with CSS only is a triangle with a shadow. Well, actually you can (if your name is Chris Coyier).
Delivering a Mozilla Firefox Extended Support Release | The Mozilla Blog
I will probably never understand why but some big corporations don't want to update their browsers too often. Mozilla changed their upgrade policy lately and these corporations were not happy about it. There's a solution to that problem now.
Emigre Web Font Pricing
Web fonts were supposed to make it easier for us and were supposed to make the web a more beautiful place. Unfortunately the web got worse. Font foundries turned out to be greedy bastards who don't understand the web at all. What do the amount of page views have to do with the price of a font-file? It's none of their business, it's a rather rude thing to ask, isn't it? And then they have some requirements about how I host these font-files. But maybe the worst of all is that I'm not allowed to optimize the font-file for my own specific needs (font-files can be huge and should be optimized really). Other crazy things: you're not allowed to use the font on an element with the contenteditable attribute, and you have to use the CSS they provide. What the foundries don't understand is that they have to compete with free services (and pirated fonts), not promote them. Want to use @font-face? Use a free service like font-squirrel, The League of Movable Type or Google Webfonts. Am I the only person who thinks these licenses are insane?