Google Dropping IE6 Support
By JC John Sese Cuneta on February 2nd, 2010
In General
Three days ago (January 30th), The Google Apps Team sent an email to all Google Apps users about the impending phasing out of support for Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 as well as other browsers that are not supported by their own manufacturers.
This is big news and Google’s move adds a bigger force to the IE6 No More movement which pushes that all websites (personal to corporate sites) must drop MSIE6 support if we even want to see newer web technologies being used by everyone.
@font-face Browser Support Test Page
By JC John Sese Cuneta on January 22nd, 2010
In General
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Welcome to Snow World’s CSS @font-face rule browser support test page!
Obviously, if you can see the Filipino greeting “Mabuhay” above in Baybayin script, your browser support webfonts. In other words, you will see the actual fonts of the websites that use webfonts (aka CSS @font-face rule) - as the designer intended. (Which you probably will not notice or realize that you do not have that font installed on your machine.)
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(Thank you for visiting.)
If you want to learn how you can implement cross-browser webfonts support on your website, read: How-To Implement Cross-Browser @font-face Support
For more about Baybayin read: Baybayin - The Forgotten Pre-Hispanic Writing of the Filipino.
You can also check out the: Baybayin Typepad No.01 if you want to try typing the Filipino script.
How-To Implement Cross-Browser @font-face Support
By JC John Sese Cuneta on January 22nd, 2010
In General
Firefox 3.6 “Final” was released today and one of the major addition is the support for the Web Open Font Format or WOFF. The result of a collaboration between the font designers Erik van Blokland and Tal Leming with help from Mozilla’s Jonathan Kew.
What is it for? How can you use it? By using the CSS2 @font-face (yes it is CSS2 not CSS3). This new format is promising because it has a large number of support from the font creators and font foundries, and hopefully this will be the first font format that Microsoft will accept for Internet Explorer browser other than their existing Embedded OpenType or EOT.
If IE9 supports WOFF, then this format will be the first cross-browser @font-face/webfont format. There’s no question when it comes to Chromium/Chrome, Opera, and Safari, the problem with cross-browser tech is always with MSIE.
