Monday, March 30, 2009

IE 8 Faster than Firefox? Yes!

Having downloaded both IE8 BETA releases in order to better understand the re-coding necessary on some of our menu systems I was sorely disappointedin both IE8 performance and User Interface.Since UI is subjective I'll let that piece drop and talk about speed. After Microsoft released the final version of IE we noticed a definite increase in thespeed of IE8 vs Firefox 3.0.7. We called around to other developers and they were reporting similar experiences - all purely anecdotal, though. We were...

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Posted by Michael MacNaughton on Monday, March 30, 2009 in Software (3)

Sunday, March 15, 2009

CSS Drop Caps, the @font-face tag, sIFR and Cufon

This week we have been in interesting discussions regarding font rendering in html pages. The first discussions were centered around theaccelerating trendfor web pages to emulate magazine design.Thisstarted in2004 with the limited useof CSSDrop Caps as shown in thisparagraph (the large Blue letter T). The code (example below) can be inline or, if usedfrequently, in theexternal style sheet.<span style=line-height: 0.8em; padding-right: 5px; font-family: times,Georgia; float: left; color: #9dacbf;...

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Posted by Michael MacNaughton on Sunday, March 15, 2009 in CSS (6)