Viva la revolution

The release of Firefox 3.5 concludes the adoption of the most anticipated feature in web design history.

With the most fundamental restriction of our trade lifted, the face of the web is forever changed. Within months, 95% of the browser market share will support the native display of custom fonts courtesy of @font-face. Good times.

While designers rejoice, font foundries despair. I feel no sympathy. They had their chance; rather than embrace the technological revolution in an iTunes Music Store-esque manner, they assumed a futile stance and held development back for years. Unwilling to learn from their mistake, they share the fate of record labels and film studios alike.

Verdana – we had a good run.

A bug in phpMyAdmin erased the comments of this article.

This is great, indeed. And I just got the hang of Cufón... *sigh* Well, at least I won't be late to this party.

Re: The spam phpMyAdmin bug: Captcha, anyone?

I tend to share Massimo Vignelli's views on typefaces: there just aren't that many good ones.

As for the poor font foundries (or any other IP-based company for that matter): it's called survival of the fittest. Learn to embrace technology, or be doomed to suffer from it.

Now, if we could just get all the browsers to natively and fully support SVG, we'll be great. That way we can do beautifully scaled images, as well as text.

Sebastian: I'd rather not use Captcha, it's obtrusive and would ruin the design. I've installed Akismet, though, which seems to be working perfectly behind the scenes.

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... or not!

lol: That was funny. Best of luck then with Akismet.

Thanks. I might need it...

You could try a less obtrusive CAPTCHA, with simple questions a human can easily answer like "what color is the sky?" and "what is two plus two?"

Hi Neil. I've already tried something in this fashion but it seems the spam bots that infest(ed?) FRKT are unusually clever!

heey ay

How do you make form elements, like the one on the bottom of this page transparent?

Hi Jeff. Simply set the "background" CSS property of form elements to "none". See the CSS file for details.

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