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Today marks the beta launch of Internet Explorer 9. To celebrate the release, Nishant Kothary from the MIX Online team at Microsoft reached out to me to help showcase its support of WOFF . I knew immediately this was a great opportunity to collaborate with people I admire, so I dropped a line to Frank Chimero and Naz Hamid to lend their design talents, and Trent Walton (who also brought in the skilled Dave Rupert ) to help pitch in on coding duties. As things progressed, Trent and Dave really came in swinging and the group ended up collaborating and nurturing ideas together. … Read the rest here

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Canon 60D vs. 7D : Dan Carr: [At] first glance it might seem like the 60D has made the 7D somewhat obsolete but that really is not the case. A closer look at the specs reveals a camera that more carefully fits into the

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PaintbrushJS Playground : I

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Google and Arcade Fire Team Up for HTML5

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PaintbrushJS : New from Dave Shea ,

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Eric Schmidt and Ivan Seidenberg: A Path to an Open Internet : The CEOs of Google and Verizon authored an opinion piece in The Washington Post today, which closes with this statement: There are hundreds of millions of Internet users in the United States, and no two companies should be so presumptuous as to think they can solve this challenge alone. It is up to policymakers to establish broadband policy for the country. We are eager to work with Congress, the FCC and other interested parties to get this right. We hope that our proposal provides some concrete ideas to move this process forward. … Read the rest here

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A Real Web Design Application : This is a very thorough overview by Jason Santa Maria of the current tools available to web designers, their shortcomings, and the friction and waste created by transferring work from tool to browser. Jason

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FontFonter: Try WebFontFonts on Any Website : Bear with me as I continue to catch up on old news. This is probably the coolest thing I missed last week. We

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Drew Strojny from the ThemeFoundry (who I knew from his lovely Traction theme ) recently asked me if I’d like to create a new WordPress theme for him. The offer-I-couldn’t-refuse was complete creative freedom, and the opportunity to make the design process visible. That doesn’t mean ‘open’ in the sense of ‘everything being up for discussion with the internets’ (that way madness lies), but documenting the steps as we go. Everyone has a different workflow, and my workflow isn’t necessarily the right approach for anyone else and vice versa. However, I still love hearing others explain their thought process – the ‘Design Eye’ panels at SXSW spring immediately to mind as being good examples. So on this blog, and on my dribbble account, I’ll be recording what happens as it goes along… Read the rest here

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Type Hinting : Peter Bi?ak: I have been designing type since the early 1990s, and for as long as I can remember, type designers have been saying that hinting would soon be made obsolete by new advances in hardware and software. Now, almost 20 years later, hinting seems to be more relevant than ever. According to Peter, hinting

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“I turned off comments in the last redesign of powazek.com because I needed a place online that was just for me. With comments on, when I sat down to write, I

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Evans G Plus Coated Drumheads : I

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I’ve never over-run on a talk. Ever. Usually I embarrasingly finish around 10 mins early, leaving plenty of time for questions. Until last week at Future of Web Design that is. When it came down to the last 5 minutes, I realised I had a lot more to go, and had to really hurry the last couple of sections. Thankfully the feedback so far has been positive, but I promise this will be (probably) be the last time I talk on this subject. … Read the rest here

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Quantum of Deployment : A detailed look at the process Etsy uses to for continuous deployment. Author

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HTML started as a very simple language. By many accounts, it’s still very simple. You create some text and you wrap some tags around it. The tags provide a small measure of meaning and allow user agents—aka browsers—to present the content in a meaningful way. In the early days of the web, browser developers quickly added features that helped web developers build more exciting sites and applications… Read the rest here

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IE Mobile for Windows Phone 7 has decided to implement support for -webkit-text-size-adjust . They’ll also be adding their own duplicate vendor-specific prefix, -ms-text-size-adjust . That’s right, Microsoft will be adding support for another vendor’s non-standard implementation. Is this good or bad? … Read the rest here

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The Conversation: Is It Done Yet? : In which Dan Benjamin, Faruk Ates, Garrett Dimon, and I discuss the design and development process, how it differs when it

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The recent passing of the UK Digital Economy Act has generated outrage amongst the web community. Large media business have effectively lobbied government under the spurious claim that without protection the future of the digital economy in the UK is at threat. However the future of digital isn’t locked inside a few big content companies distributing their goods electronically. The future of the digital economy is in empowering a creative class to produce new and as yet unheard of business opportunities on the web. So rather than protecting the digital economy, the Digital Economy Act will have the effect of protecting outdated business models and harming innovation in the UK and handing over initiative to more liberal and less restrictive countries. One potentially damaging aspect facing UK start-ups and freelancers is the one makes the owners of open wifi networks responsible for the traffic that passes over the network… Read the rest here