Posted by honryou at 5 December, 2008
There’s been a welcome resurgence of interest in web typography over the past year or so, with many articles and conference talks offering techniques and theory. Frequently asserted is the notion that good typography requires accurate control of font size and line-height. But this is the web: it’s a special medium where the reader can have as much control as the designer—the implication being that text on the web, while bending to the designer’s will, must also be reliably resizable across browsers and platforms …
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Posted by honryou at 5 December, 2008
Version targeting shakes our browser-agnostic faith. Its default behavior runs counter to our expectations, and seems wrong. Yet to offer true DOM support without bringing JScript-authored sites to their knees, version targeting must work …
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Posted by honryou at 5 December, 2008
For the sake of brevity, I won’t go through each and every property and value involved in the CSS, but I do want to talk a bit about those dividers. I chose not to place the “|” characters in the markup because, while they might have given the desired appearance, they would have been unhelpful to users who may be using a screen reader (“Products Vertical Bar Support Vertical Bar About Vertical Bar…”). Instead, the dividers can be applied through background …
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