MPEG standards group is expecting to merge technologies from Mozilla, Adobe, Google, and Microsoft into a standard and provide ability to multicolour the fonts and possibly more. "With color-font support, the hassles of alignment, editing, and other changes disappear. But there's more, too: instead of just using different blocks of a single color, as with current chromatic fonts, the new standard will let people define gradients that gradually change from one color to another or that become gradually transparent. "
SVGMagic is a simple jQuery plugin that searchs for SVG images (including background-images) on your website and creates PNG versions if the browser doesn't support SVG.
L20n's framework removes the need for developers to thoroughly understand the specifics of a natural language and provides an opportunity for localizers to create better translations. It also takes responsive layouts into account.
Health Canada scientists are running their own unsanctioned libraries to get around policies and cuts that are making them impossible to access. "If you want to justify closing a library, you make access difficult and then you say it is hardly used."
And what are they doing with them? Sending you adware-filled and malware-filled updates, naturally. Google is already moving to put the kibosh on this, thankfully.
Read the legal case, which is written in pretty plain english, and remember to always get things in writing. IÂ’'m hopeful that this doesnÂ’'t signify the beginning of the end of their cloud font initiative, that we use here on Visual Lizard dot com.
Apparently toast is the new coffee shop (hipster) thing out west. This article digs down to the beginning of the craze and discovers that it is more about mental health than toast. Worth the read.
As I was just seriously considering purchasing Nest Thermostat and Nest Protect there come news about Nest Labs being acquired by Google for $3.2 Billion. Now I may hold on a bit, since we all know what happens with start-ups after Google acquires them.