After 3 years of absence from the tech-blogging scene I am doing it again. I’v been blogging about all things WordPress over at wordpress.designpraxis.at, where i used to maintain several WordPress plugins. So this post also functions as a landing page for redirects from there.
My activities have been going to other [...]
Today I wanted to have a look onto my @font-face webfont experiments under Windows and booted from my Windows Vista partition. And I was shocked. DejaVu looks just horribly ugly.
Reason is that I had turned of any fancy Windows Vista effects. Amongst these is the smoothing of screen fonts named ClearType. Unfortunately after enabling [...]
Earlier in 2009, Internet Explorer 6 has been officially buried, even the Microsoft IE6 developer team sent some flowers, but from my point of view it has been buried alive. When deploying web-based frontends within large corporations you often still find Internet Explorer 6 and even below.
How come?
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Gone are the days where GD and ImageMagick were the tools of choice to render text dynamically. I started to use my own php scripts in 2002 and used them up to 05. Menus only. Headlines of certain length only.
Remember Mike Davidsons sIFR? That was amazing! And it happened in 2005 [...]
