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Quick test of the font service from TypeKit.com

By Helge. April 29, 2010

Typekit is commercial service that lets you embed non-standard fonts into HTML pages. It is relatively easy to use and takes care of all the licensing issues. So far, all good. Yesterday, I did a quick test of the service using the font LFT Etica Display.

I must say results were disappointing and showed far too much difference than what’s acceptable. It may have something to do with this specific font, like the font-hinting.

It’s sad to see that Opera is not supported at all, even though the latest versions have native support for font embedding.

All the tests were done on a Windows 7 PC.

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On how to play HTML5 video

By Jørn. March 23, 2010

The movie playing on mobile devices

Most web developers agree that the ability to play video on webpages is a must, however the jury is out on how these videos should be played. I’m of course referring to the HTML 5 video format controversy. Throw FlashPlayer into the mix and you’ll end up with a humongous fight leading fast to nowhere. Based on this, focusing on finding a solution, I tried to piece together a player using both HTML 5 video, and FlashPlayer for less capable browsers like Internet Explorer. You can find a demo alpha version of the player here: http://makingria.com/demo/html5/videoplayer/

Browser support

The player supports the following browsers:

  • Internet Explorer 7 (FlashPlayer, H:264 video)
  • Firefox 3.6 (Native playback, OGG Theora video)
  • Google Chrome and Apple Safari (Native Playback, H.264 video)
  • iPad and iPhone (Native Playback)
  • Opera 10.5 (Native playback, OGG Theora video)

How to build it

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The iPad experience

By Sven. January 29, 2010

iPad
When Steve Jobs presented the newest Apple gadget, the iPad, the discussions started all over the world. Some call it a ”giant iPhone”, except that you can’t use it as a phone, so maybe a giant iPod Touch is more accurate. The similarities are many. The iPad can run most of the applications on Apples App Store, and to develop iPad applications you use the iPhone SDK, although a updated version with better support for the new giant. Will the iPad be the next big thing and experience the same success as the iPhone? There are a bunch of discussions out there. The price, the size, the possibilities and of course the limitations. One of the limitations I have read most about, and as a Flash developer are very interested in, is the lack of support for the Adobe Flash Player.

Since the release of the iPhone Adobe have tried to get Apple to release a Flash player version for the iPhone, but without any luck. The situation has not changed when it comes to the iPad. The big difference here is that one of the major things to use iPad to is surfing the web. We have been used to limitations when surfing the web on mobile devices. But I must admit that I don’t expect any of these limitations when it comes to a “mini-computer” like the iPad.
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