The Pummeling Pages
Brent Simmons on the poor user experience of actually reading on the web. Most notably on sites that are meant to be read, like the websites of publications. (via @DaringFirefeed)
Brent Simmons on the poor user experience of actually reading on the web. Most notably on sites that are meant to be read, like the websites of publications. (via @DaringFirefeed)
A good example of responsive web design. The site is a film resource that assumes a bias towards older, often unpopular, and sometimes unknown films that merit a second look. (via @RWD)
Trent Walton describes his experience with the CSS property for paragraph hyphenation. I am still using hyphenator.js on this site, but CSS hyphenation looks like a cleaner implementation.
David Demaree explains the reason behind Typekit’s use of JavaScript to serve web fonts. He gives a brief introduction to Kit JS, a lightweight JavaScript library. (via @typekit)
A serendipitous article on using a baseline gird system. With a focus on setting a typographical rhythm, Pierre Marly details the use of an experimental grid system. (via @Coleran)
An interesting image manipulation tool using HTML5 Canvas and Javascript. “It’s a combination of a simple-to-use interface with advanced and efficient image/canvas editing techniques.” (via @mezzoblue)
An overview of Readability: the popular bookmarklet from Arc90 which is relaunched as a paid subscription service that hopes to reboot how content gets read and paid for on the web.