Safari and Camino (Gecko) on OS X. Both blocks of text are the same length.
If you think about it, this is probably the desired result, otherwise there would be a small area of space between VA and much more space between AA or VV. Which would then look unbalanced.
This is the centuries-old practice that the article seems to be trying to reinvent. Adobe InDesign has had "optical" kerning for a while now.
I just ran a quick test in Photoshop. Starting with a 4000px square image, filled with white I got a 48Mb document. Saving this for web, as compressed as I could get it I ended up with a 12kb file.
What I think he means is that adding padding actually makes the box wider, rather than the content inside narrower. i.e a box with 400px of content is 400px wide, but with 50px of padding all around it becomes 500px wide rather than 300px of content in a 400px box.
XBMC. The Xbox may be a PC a heart, but everything about it, from the (fairly inconspicous) case to the interface, remote control support, instant-on, low noise and 5-minute setup tell a different story. The best part is that it plays fair with protocols and standards, so you can stream from Mac/Win/Linux over Samba pretty much any format of video or audio you care to choose. Only downside is having to softmod the Xbox in the first place.
Actually, most offset lithography presses run at around 2400dpi, perhaps less for printing on the low-quality paper used in books. So your point is even more valid, and perhaps my main objection to the devices, below cost.
Fortunately, on allofmp3.com you can pay with PayPal; hence you're only giving them $10 at a time, they never see your card details. Plus, that $10 usually ends up giving you more than $10 worth of music.
I'm really surpised that this is the only +5 comment which argues for typography. Just like any other subject there are experts, and a lot more to the subject than at first glance. You might think that there are only three types of font, but there are 4-5 different categories of serif fonts, each with its own applications. There is some horrible design on the web, but there are a lot of designers who really know what they're doing typographically. Their work makes what you read on the web easier to read, more appealing to "pick up" and more atmospheric. You can overide it if it is bad, or difficult to read, but often you'll find you're detracting from the meaning of the text and making it harder to read.
A lot of the material in the article is classic print typography, which has evolved over the last half century to serve the reader admirably.
On the subject of this being a Flash/JS hack, I think the point's already been made that it degrades gracefully, and is probably the best way of adding a bit of variety to the web in terms of typeface choice.
I've been using NASLite in a PII 300 box with 64Mb of ram and one 160Gb HDD and it works a treat. The forums over the the website the parent mentionned are also really helpful and friendly.
I keep all my music on my computer as fairly high quality MP3s, but nearly all of the new music I acquire now comes from CDs, even though I have used iTunes in the past. Using eBay or Amazon Marketplace it sometimes half as much, and the CD becomes a backup as soon as I rip it. If I lose the file, I have no trouble ripping it again, and I always have a high quality copy of the album stored away.
It just seems like CDs are still win-win, whereas the only advantage online music stores have is that you get the music instantly.
Who would actually need gigabit for home use? 802.11g is plenty fast enough for streaming video around no? What's more if you're using cable in a server room or something then I don't see that it matters so much that it's thinner than normal cat5 cable. Another slashvertisment?
This is really old news now, I saw it a long time ago and decided to make my own, with a twist. Instead of a pizza box I took a box file (for holding documents), lined it with furniture foam and my 12" iBook, mouse and power brick fit snigly inside. What's more the whole thing can also fit in a rucksack.
The most recent version of FireFox (0.9 and upwards) now automatically detects proxy settings, so there's no need to go hunting for them in your IE settings.
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Safari and Camino (Gecko) on OS X. Both blocks of text are the same length.
If you think about it, this is probably the desired result, otherwise there would be a small area of space between VA and much more space between AA or VV. Which would then look unbalanced.
This is the centuries-old practice that the article seems to be trying to reinvent. Adobe InDesign has had "optical" kerning for a while now.
You have mistakenly lived your life without hearing the album ATLiens. Touché!
Why is it "stupid", just out of curiosity?
I just ran a quick test in Photoshop. Starting with a 4000px square image, filled with white I got a 48Mb document. Saving this for web, as compressed as I could get it I ended up with a 12kb file.
Lilina might well be what you're looking for to aggregate those blogs...
What I think he means is that adding padding actually makes the box wider, rather than the content inside narrower. i.e a box with 400px of content is 400px wide, but with 50px of padding all around it becomes 500px wide rather than 300px of content in a 400px box.
XBMC. The Xbox may be a PC a heart, but everything about it, from the (fairly inconspicous) case to the interface, remote control support, instant-on, low noise and 5-minute setup tell a different story. The best part is that it plays fair with protocols and standards, so you can stream from Mac/Win/Linux over Samba pretty much any format of video or audio you care to choose. Only downside is having to softmod the Xbox in the first place.
Actually, most offset lithography presses run at around 2400dpi, perhaps less for printing on the low-quality paper used in books. So your point is even more valid, and perhaps my main objection to the devices, below cost.
Fortunately, on allofmp3.com you can pay with PayPal; hence you're only giving them $10 at a time, they never see your card details. Plus, that $10 usually ends up giving you more than $10 worth of music.
This proves that science is wrong! Go ID!
that's allofmp3...
Surely if you license your comment under the GFDL you don't have to attribute it at all?
I'm really surpised that this is the only +5 comment which argues for typography. Just like any other subject there are experts, and a lot more to the subject than at first glance. You might think that there are only three types of font, but there are 4-5 different categories of serif fonts, each with its own applications. There is some horrible design on the web, but there are a lot of designers who really know what they're doing typographically. Their work makes what you read on the web easier to read, more appealing to "pick up" and more atmospheric. You can overide it if it is bad, or difficult to read, but often you'll find you're detracting from the meaning of the text and making it harder to read.
A lot of the material in the article is classic print typography, which has evolved over the last half century to serve the reader admirably.
On the subject of this being a Flash/JS hack, I think the point's already been made that it degrades gracefully, and is probably the best way of adding a bit of variety to the web in terms of typeface choice.
I've been using NASLite in a PII 300 box with 64Mb of ram and one 160Gb HDD and it works a treat. The forums over the the website the parent mentionned are also really helpful and friendly.
I keep all my music on my computer as fairly high quality MP3s, but nearly all of the new music I acquire now comes from CDs, even though I have used iTunes in the past. Using eBay or Amazon Marketplace it sometimes half as much, and the CD becomes a backup as soon as I rip it. If I lose the file, I have no trouble ripping it again, and I always have a high quality copy of the album stored away.
It just seems like CDs are still win-win, whereas the only advantage online music stores have is that you get the music instantly.
Who would actually need gigabit for home use? 802.11g is plenty fast enough for streaming video around no? What's more if you're using cable in a server room or something then I don't see that it matters so much that it's thinner than normal cat5 cable. Another slashvertisment?
This is really old news now, I saw it a long time ago and decided to make my own, with a twist. Instead of a pizza box I took a box file (for holding documents), lined it with furniture foam and my 12" iBook, mouse and power brick fit snigly inside. What's more the whole thing can also fit in a rucksack.
I find it a little more time-consuming to actually get songs (more likely to be in a queue), but I've never had a corrupted file using eMule.
The most recent version of FireFox (0.9 and upwards) now automatically detects proxy settings, so there's no need to go hunting for them in your IE settings.