http://simonwillison.net/2010-08-17T20:54:00+00:00Simon Willison2010-08-17T20:54:00+00:002010-08-17T20:54:00+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2010/Aug/17/pictos/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://pictos.drewwilson.com/">Pictos</a></strong></p> Here’s something new: a for-sale font containing a set of beautiful royalty-free icons (like Wingdings, but good) designed to be embedded in web applications using @font-face. Small file sizes, scalable vectors without SVG. Not sure about the accessibility implications though. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/fonts">fonts</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/recovered">recovered</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/pictos">pictos</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/webfonts">webfonts</a></p>

2010-05-20T15:20:00+00:002010-05-20T15:20:00+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2010/May/20/fonts/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://code.google.com/webfonts/preview">Google Font Directory: Font Preview</a></strong></p> Handy tool for trying out the 18 open source fonts Google have released, along with server-side browser sniffing technology that serves up the correct version (including for IE6). The browser sniffing makes me a bit uncomfortable—will it play well with intermediate caches? What happens if I save a local copy of a page and then open it up in a different browser? <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/fonts">fonts</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/google">google</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/recovered">recovered</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/webfonts">webfonts</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/sniffing">sniffing</a></p>

2010-05-07T12:09:00+00:002010-05-07T12:09:00+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2010/May/7/scribd/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://www.scribd.com/documents/30964170/Scribd-in-HTML5">Scribd in HTML5</a></strong></p> Outstanding piece of engineering work from Scribd—they can now render documents using HTML, webfonts and a ton of CSS absolute positioning (using ems rather than pixels) instead of Flash. Nothing to do with HTML5 of course, which is rapidly replacing Ajax as the most mis-applied terminology on the Web. That nit-pick feels pretty insignificant compared to their overall achievement though—being able to convert any formatted document (.doc, pdf etc) in to HTML and CSS that displays correctly is a real leap forward. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/css">css</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/css3">css3</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/html">html</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/html5">html5</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/scribd">scribd</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/recovered">recovered</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/webfonts">webfonts</a></p>