If you want to attend a conference in Belfast next November, this would be a great one. In addition, it’s a fun design. The images of speakers are small flash files. (This is a cool and web-standards-friendly use of flash.)
Notice that the design itself is very simple. Words, images, grid, simple color scheme, good use of typography and spacing.
Best Practices for Serving Webfonts to IE9
New code:
[css]@font-face {
font-family: ‘MyWebFont’;
src: url(‘webfont.eot’); /* IE9 Compat Modes */
src: url(‘webfont.eot?#iefix’) format(’embedded-opentype’), /* IE6-IE8 */
url(‘webfont.woff’) format(‘woff’), /* Modern Browsers */
url(‘webfont.ttf’) format(‘truetype’), /* Safari, Android, iOS */
url(‘webfont.svg#svgFontName’) format(‘svg’); /* Legacy iOS */
}[/css]
An improvement on Paul Irish’s original Bulletproof syntax and the follow-up Mo’ Bulletproofer syntax …
Today from Ethan Dunham at the Fontspring blog, a fix for troubles loading web fonts across browsers, including Android, IE 9, etc.
[css]@font-face {
font-family: ‘MyFontFamily’;
src: url(‘myfont-webfont.eot#’) format(’embedded-opentype’),
url(‘myfont-webfont.woff’) format(‘woff’),
url(‘myfont-webfont.ttf’) format(‘truetype’),
url(‘myfont-webfont.svg#webfontFqDaNIX6’) format(‘svg’);
}[/css]
Mobile web-app developers, check out 37signals new Basecamp Mobile.
For behind-the-scenes perspective, read their blog post on their decision to go with a web app as opposed to native apps for iOS, Android, etc.
And it appears that in the process 37signals has been building a new web-app framework, which they’ve dubbed “Cinco.” Given that this is coming from the creator of Ruby on Rails, David Heinemeier Hansson, it should be worth watching.
See David’s tell-tale tweet:
Basecamp goes mobile with HTML5 and our new Cinco framework: http://bit.ly/fAqTY3 — thanks to @sstephenson, @joshpeek, and @jz
And then this comment in response to inquiries:
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Basecamp Mobile is written in CoffeeScript using our in-house Cinco mobile framework, which ties together Backbone.js, Zepto, the Eco templating language, and Stitch.We’ll be talking more about Cinco and open-sourcing it in the coming months.
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